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Quotes About Creativity

And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.
~ Beatrice Wood
Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.
~ Arthur Erickson
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
The best art always comes unbidden.
~ Unknown
For ages past the Genius of Literature and the Genius of Art have walked together hand in hand. For the Goddess of letters is blind, and only she of Art can lend her sight.
~ Howard Pyle
The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature.
~ C.S. Lewis
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
~ Paul Gauguin
The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.
~ Maya Lin
Although even when I am being idle I have plenty of food for thought both early and late - thoughts both about and not about art.
~ Gustav Klimt
I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.
~ Len Wein
Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art.
~ Leonard Baskin
Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.
~ Roy Blount, Jr.
You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.
~ Milan Kundera
What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit.
~ Richard Attenborough
Many Japanese painters and calligraphers would change their names intentionally to keep their relationship to the art always fresh. This way, others' expectations can be avoided.
~ Tina Weymouth
Fashion, for me, is anything that's aesthetic and beautiful. Art, food, film. It's something that I appreciate and really like.
~ St. Vincent
To an art historian a Giotto is a 14th Century painting. To an artist it was painted yesterday. We free ourselves from the past when we see it freshly.
~ Walter Darby Bannard
Art should not have to be a certain way.
~ Willem de Kooning
Today's art has been cancelled due to police activity.
~ Banksy
I wanted to do dance with the same seriousness as art was done and acknowledged, not with the entertainment factor that is always connected to theater and film.
~ Tino Sehgal
I'm trying to paint a picture of what I have seen and what moved me, as well as I can. That's all.
~ Gerhard Richter
In the art game we do our own cooking.
~ Sara Genn
I think that experiencing through art is a wonderful way to expand the horizon and everything around it.
~ Nicolas Winding Refn
Being an art form, verse cannot be "free" in the sense of having no limitations or guiding principle.
~ William Carlos Williams