Quotes About Creativity

In all the arts abundance seems to be one of the surest signs of vocation.

Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art.

Art to me is not precious enough that I feel territorial about what the word gets applied to. Conversations about what counts as art and what doesn't doesn't captivate my attention very much.

Count art by gold, and it fetters the feet it once winged.

Writing is a kind of performing art, and I can't sit down to write unless I'm dressed. I don't mean dressed in a suit, but dressed well and comfortably and I have to be shaved and bathed.

People often say 'I live for my art.' Bullshit! If you are given a talent it's to be used. It's not in the private domain.

In art there are only two types of people: revolutionaries and plagiarists

You can't understand how strange it was to be a sculptor who exhibited photographs. (On exhibitions of his earthworks and land art pieces.)

Colour is the ultimate in art. It is still and will always remain a mystery to us, we can only apprehend it intuitively in flowers.

To me, art supplies are always okay to buy.

There have been countless changes in the long history of art. The most significant have been brought about by the genius of a single artist.

In every artist there is poetry. In every human being there is the poetic element. We know, we feel, we believe.

If the liberal arts do nothing else they provide engaging metaphors for the thinking they displace.

Films are an art form which are sold after packaging in this commercial world

when I came to know Greek art I instantly understood that excess and perfection are enemies; yet on the other hand this world and the millions of worlds around us live by fire ... !

Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry

I don't want to be in an art bubble.

Most artists are surrealists. ... always dreaming something and then they paint it.

Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

The greatest art comes out of warmth and conviction and deep feeling, but then, very few people, even geniuses, have all that.

If you see yourself reflected in art, you feel validated.

In Europe they understand that the arts are incredibly important both culturally and economically.

I doubt that art needed Ruskin any more than a moving train needs one of its passengers to shove it.

I always wanted to be an artist, I just didn't know that you could be, or how you could be. I went to an art high school but they never even took me to a gallery.