Quotes About Creativity

You don't have to be Michelangelo to teach basic art, just as you don't have to be Shakespeare to be able to teach the correct use of language.

Religion is simply art bastardized out of all recognition.

Why write [about my art]? Why not just show the photographs?

The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Writing as an art form belongs to all people, regardless of economic class or educational level. . . . A writer is someone who writes.

More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.

I like the fact that I can rep New York, but my style does not - I'm not trapped in a New York thing. I can do art songs with other artists and it's seamless.

Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.

But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.

The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.

Robert Rauschenberg was not a giant of American art; he was the giant. No American created so many aesthetic openings for so many artists.

Art means to dare - and to have been right.

I don't think the government should touch art. Governments are risk averse. They encourage risk-averse personalities to be artists.

If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary.

All arts his own, the hungry Greekling counts; And bid him mount the skies, the skies he mounts.

The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, 'then' what do we do?

I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it.

The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?

Whenever serious art loses track of its roots in the vernacular, then it begins to atrophy.

My art has nothing to do with servicing collectors, it's for living, for turning on with.

The definition of art has to shift whenever an innovator appears.

What seems distinctively modern as a unit of thought, of art, of discourse is the fragment; and the quotation is one kind of fragment.

One day, in the San Francisco walk, he came upon some badly painted figures and observed that good painters imitate nature but bad ones vomit it forth.

How often my soul visits the National Gallery, and how seldom