Quotes About Creativity

In art, there are tears that do often lie too deep for thoughts.

I drew a picture on the back of a calendar in pencil. In those days they used to give out free calendars, I had no art paper, so I took whatever else I could.

Fashion is every woman's language, and every woman's tool. Fashion is anatomy for me, creating your second skin is one of the most intimate art forms I can think of.

The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing...should be taught to every child just as writing is.

The statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter, and removes the rubbish.

Songwriting's never been a natural art for me; it's always been a bit of a struggle.

As all Art depends on Vision, so the different kinds of Art depend on the different ways in which minds look at things.

Originality in art puts charm where it wasn't.

All I want to do is give the world my heart... Record label tryina make me compromise my art.

Art lies in the fine choice. The artist does not teach us to see facts: he teaches us to feel harmonies.

The more you think, the more you ruin things. Art has to come viscerally; otherwise, forget it.

Do you know that drawing with words is also an art... ?

Perfectionism kills art. I find that if I criticise myself, it spoils the fun. You can get paralysed by analysis - it takes all the playfulness away.

Many young painters would never have taken their pencils in hand if they could have felt, known, and understood, early enough, what really produced a master like Raphael.

Why do humans make art? It's how we evolved.

A wasp in a wig is altogether beyond the appliances of art.

Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live

Art matures. It is the formal elaboration of activity, complete in its own pattern. It is a cosmos of its own.

I'm a huge fan of animation, and just the arts in general - anything that emanates from someone's mind and soul and is capable of touching other people's minds and souls.

Most authors steal their works, or buy.

If cooking becomes an art form rather than a means of providing a reasonable diet, then something is clearly wrong.

Art can make the old surprising, and the new and sudden soothing.

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Robert Creely's poems have two main characteristics. 1) They are short; 2) they are not short enough.