Quotes About Creativity

The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature.

You don't need tons of money to create art. You do need tons of money to be a part of show business. They are two different things.

If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.

All great literature has an uncreeded and luminous theology behind it... Art [is] a form of active prayer.

The important thing is to keep on drawing when you start to paint. Never graduate from drawing.

The climax of absurdity to which art may be carried when led away from nature by fashion, may be best seen in the works of Boucher.

I don't think you can talk about progress in art—movement, but not progress.

The artist will have had his revenge for being made to wait, A revenge not only necessary but right and clever-- Simply to leave him out of the scene forever.

I've taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art.

Human requirements are the inspiration for art.

As artists, we must learn to be self-nourishing. We must become alert enough to consciously replenish our creative resources as we draw on them.

Internet can provide the power to believe in art in new formulas, because it is the newest medium for art.

When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if I got frightened and tried to protect that, that canvas would die.

art itself shuns commonality: while the scientist may seek the phenomenon that repeats itself, the artist seeks the exception.

When I danced, I felt I was entering the temple of Art.

He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem.

Art comes into being in that abstract interval between a thought and reality, and no one - not even the artist who created it - can remeasure the influences that caused it.

I think the mystery of art lies in this, that artists' relationship is essentially with their work — not with power, not with profit, not with themselves, not even with their audience.

It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Possible reality [is obtained] by slightly bending physical and chemical laws.

Art should make you think and feel. It doesn't have to match your couch.

Art isn't a product. It's an experience

I never studied sculpture, engineering or architecture. In fact, after college I applied to seven art schools and was rejected by all seven.

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.