Quotes About Creativity

The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.

The picture must all come out of the artist's inside, awareness of forms and figures... It is more than memory. It is the image as it lives in the consciousness, alive like a vision, but unknown.

When art dresses itself in the most worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

Art in the Church fundamentally exists for evangelization

Have you not seen that in our days Of any whose story, song or art Delights us, our sincerest praise Means, when all's said, 'You break my heart?

In America, the word art has become like the word adultery. It's this big scarlet letter. When you say you're an artist, people are like, "Ugh."

Whenever I see a Frans Hals I feel like painting, but when I see a Rembrandt I feel like giving up!

I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the Navy, there wasn't much to draw at sea. So I began writing, and I began reading a lot.

Without craft, art remains private. Without art, craft is merely hackwork.

How many attempts, now happy, now unhappy!... He who has not felt the difficulties of his art does nothing that counts.

Mathematics is the purest of the arts, as well as the most misunderstood.

Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.

Machines have come, art has fled, and I am far from thinking photography can help us.

Twitter has to be about art. It can't be about banal things. Banal things and art are two different worlds.

Don't think about making art.

The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.

Indifference to the fine arts comes close to barbarism.

It is what is painted between the outlines that makes the difference between merely competent painting and really meaningful art.

Art moves. Hence its civilizing power.

Generally, the French highly promote culture and the arts, and photography is in their blood.

There's been million-seller books and million-seller CDs. But there hasn't been, until now, million-seller art.

Artists don't often know much about writing... but they don't bray so much about writing as writers do about art.

Art has got nothing to do with taste.

Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.