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Quotes About Creativity

Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving.
~ Aaron Hill
I was always an artist. I was a broker to earn a living, but I was always thinking about my art.
~ Jeff Koons
The world I feel, within the realm of art, is more genuine than the wrorld of matter. Artistic feeling is not tape measures, spectrographs, or flash camera lens.
~ Gu Cheng
Stage performing is a dying art form.
~ Ronnie Spector
My objective in teaching my pupils is that they should be fitted for any kind of art.
~ Howard Pyle
If it [dabbling in art] didn't amuse me, I beg you to believe that I wouldn't do it.
~ Pierre-Auguste Renoir
The consolation of art comes in many forms... For some it is making, for others it is having.
~ Michael Kimmelman
I started thinking what could happen with my art and I realized that the biggest thing that could is that it winds up in a museum. It's like finding a rare animal and putting it in the zoo.
~ Patti Smith
As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist.
~ Margaret Atwood
As an artist, I've always wanted to participate in the dialogue of art with other artists.
~ Jeff Koons
I want to be free... free to develop my art.
~ Natalia Makarova
Any blockhead can arrange a sublet. All I ever wanted was to support myself on art.
~ Walter Keane
There is nothing ugly in art except that which is without character, that is to say, that which offers no outer or inner truth.
~ Auguste Rodin
My art career actually began under the kitchen table. My mother wanted to get me out of her hair while she cooked, so she laid out some paper and pencils on the floor under the kitchen table.
~ Alton Tobey
No one, though has to go to college to make or understand or enjoy art. Wonderful artists and critics - some of the best - have educated themselves.
~ Robert Adams
Dance is an art, so day by day, it's growing and there are new things that can be done.
~ Stephen Boss
A critic in my house sees some paintings. Greatly perturbed, he asks for my drawings. My drawings? Never! They are my letters, my secrets.
~ Paul Gauguin
Free enterprise is not a bad idea and has produced art.
~ Ishmael Reed
He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.
~ John Ruskin
Art was something I could do better. It gave me a sense of self.
~ Jeff Koons
In the study of the fine arts, they mutually assist each other.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
I am here on Earth to express myself, and the many media of art are my magic carpets that allow me the freedom to do so.
~ Brandon Boyd
Fashion should go back to what it should be: closer to art, not totally commercial but have some artistic value at its core.
~ Unknown
Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.
~ Auguste Rodin