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Quotes About Creativity

I always thought martial arts was the most modern choreography we could have right now, and I always wanted to put it to music.
~ Lou Reed
Nothing so resembles a daub as a masterpiece.
~ Paul Gauguin
A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
The motion picture is the people's Art.
~ Adela Rogers St. Johns
As to what I would like to be, it is difficult to say. An artist of some kind. If nothing else I shall always study the Arts.
~ Jackson Pollock
I have the loftiest idea, and the most passionate one, of art. Much too lofty to agree to subject it to anything. Much too passionate to want to divorce it from anything.
~ Albert Camus
In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.
~ Paul Gauguin
The arts are very alive in Ireland, so that had its influence on me. But I consider myself European, really.
~ Michael Fassbender
I never really consider myself as a great artist. I just always like to draw.
~ Tim Burton
I think the art of filmmaking is something you learn through actions, by doing it, not by learning theories. And as you do it, your mind starts to change.
~ Alejandro Jodorowsky
Then sculpture and her sister arts revived; stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live.
~ Alexander Pope
I think an artist is anybody who does something well, like if you cook well.
~ Andy Warhol
I figured out that art would be the perfect place for me because what's encouraged is the invention of languages.
~ Unknown
Imagination is a powerful deceiver.
~ Elvis Costello
The more I look at most of the art movements, it's all occultism, when you get down to it. The Surrealists were openly talking about being magicians.
~ Alan Moore
Capitalism is an art form.
~ Camille Paglia
Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
~ Bette Davis
The most important imperative to be questioned is the one that tells you to go the the art supply store to be a painter.
~ Mark Bradford
Writing is the one art form that really should allow you to hang yourself.
~ Peter Sotos
There is no greater pleasure for me than to practice and exhibit my art.
~ Ludwig van Beethoven
I've been very influenced by Inuit art especially some drawings and watercolors I've seen.
~ Marcel Dzama
Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art.
~ Unknown
Art changes people people change the world.
~ Unknown
I don't believe too much in originality... you learn art from other art and then looking into somebody's face or landscape is the point of departure to do your work of art.
~ Unknown