Quotes About Creativity

Art came fluidly, so I was able to teach myself many of the things I thought were important by copying and mimicking my artistic idols.

Sometimes, to pursue a new idea, the artist must forfeit his deposit on an old idea.

There is some art that says the same thing to everybody. WE need something like that. What that is, I don't know. But virtual reality may be the key to it.

Too much art was no art at all. Like candy instead of bread!

I was always trying to take art photographs, but the most interesting pictures were the snapshots. The artsy pictures were boring, always.

There are so many disagreements in the world, but I like the idea of people agreeing on something like art.

Art does not imitate, but interpret.

This idea of art for art's sake is a hoax.

I do think that there's art that is tortured, but I prefer art that has the joy in it.

Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.

The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen does not alter his rhyme.

Don't think about making art, just get it done.

Ah, well, do I wish that we lived in a world where gender didn't figure so prominently? Of course. Do I even think about myself as a woman when I go to make art? Of course not.

An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist

Do you come to art to be comforted, or do you come to art to be re-skinned?

Art destroys silence.

An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work.

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter.

What gives me hope is art - it's the most powerful weapons ever created. It's a weapon of mass construction.

Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.

You know it's ART, when the check clears.

Innovation is an evolutionary process, so it's not necessary to be radical all the time.