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Quotes About Creativity

I think performance art comes from a simple place of wanting to express things beyond just sound.
~ Amanda Palmer
Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don't think its fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.
~ Ani DiFranco
All art is concerned with coming into being.
~ Aristotle
All art is a form of artifice.For in art there can be no prejudices.
~ Arthur Symons
I believe that photography can create great works of art, but hitherto it has been extraordinarily bourgeois and babbling. (1908)
~ Auguste Rodin
Art is all about becoming a name, a brand; it isn't based on talent or creativity.
~ Betty Dodson
I feel like the movie is reminding people of who they are, which is what I think all great art does.
~ Brie Larson
Art is form struggling to wake from the nightmare of nature.
~ Camille
My parents weren't artistic, but I was always surrounded by beautiful things. And Mexico is a country which has experienced thousands of years of art and culture.
~ Carlos Slim
Art is an infinitely precious good, a draught both refreshing and cheering which restores the stomach and the mind to the natural equilibrium of the ideal.
~ Charles Baudelaire
One of the first obligations of art is to make all useful things beautiful.
~ Edith Wharton
Art is nothing; it's a way.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Whether it's a street poster on a brick wall, a magazine cover on a newsstand, or animation on a movie screen - art is an effective means of communicating with large numbers of people.
~ Eric Drooker
art is not advocacy and advocacy is not art.
~ Erica Jong
I worked my way through art school as an auto mechanic, doing various stuff including sanding bodywork and using Bondo filler.
~ Fred Tomaselli
Art is the questioning of culture
~ Unknown
Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is black charcoal crushing white paper.
~ Gunter Grass
Art is nothing without form.
~ Gustave Flaubert
All art is an abstraction to some degree.
~ Henry Moore
The depths modern art has been exploring are mysterious depths, full of strange fish.
~ Herbert Read
That's where the most beautiful art is always created, when you have someone not worried about what the outcome is.
~ James Ransone
One function of art is to de-kitschify kitsch.
~ John Bayley
I'd say seeking is one of the fundamental artistic impulses. Art is about discovery. The medium is not the message.
~ John Paul Caponigro
Art is the highest expression of the human spirit.
~ Joyce Carol Oates