Quotes About Creativity

Art should be as inclusive as possible. That's why I like bringing the low form of puppetry and elevating it into a sculpture form, but it's still a puppet also.

I never really considered film as a career, but I knew I didn't want to be a builder. So I went to art college, and it just gradually happened.

A painting is what you make of it, besides which, 'Moon, Weeping' has a better ring to it than 'Paintbrush, Dripping.

When we talk about contemporary art and contemporary artists, we usually imagine artists who are alive. But I feel very uncomfortable about placing a border between living artists and dead artists.

No nation as young as America can be expected to become immediately a power in the arts.

Between the wolf in the tall grass and the wolf in the tall story there is a shimmering go-between. That go-between, that prism, is the art of literature.

I am an illusionist - that's why I create art.

For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.

It is terrifying to think of what a commodity art has become.

The fine arts thing at college was always too much for me to think about. What I was more involved in was being successful at arts school.

I'd rather produce art than become art.

The theater is necessary. Dance is necessary. Song is necessary. The arts are necessary- they are a necessary part of our lives

Don't make art for other artists or for 'intellectuals', make art for people - and if you can touch just one person in a lifetime and make a difference - you have succeeded.

I think with art you have to do a bit of transforming of the subject to make the art worth having.

Any piece of art, when you're putting it on a certain platform, if the platform becomes a political place, you can manipulate things.

Creativity is the art that can give rise to visionary metaphorical relationships, as opposed to purely psy-chological ones.

I didn't mind my own company as a child; I was happy playing alone in the sandpit.

I have written some poetry that I don't understand myself.

Artists, like yourself, are born with a need to express that's just innate.

I'm using my art to comment on what I see. You don't have to agree with it.

It's an extreme to go from an artist like myself to a commercial artist with art directors looking over your shoulder, or any other knucklehead telling you what your art should look like.

The process of art-making is full of happy accidents - what fun!

One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.

Do not fail, as you go on, to draw something every day, for no matter how little it is, it will be well worthwhile, and it will do you a world of good.