Quotes About Creativity

For me, the drive is storytelling. To be a part of an art that tells a story and to be a catalyst, a color in that, is very exciting.

Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?

The moment you try to institutionalize art, it ceases to be art.

The only domain where the divine is visible is that of art, whatever name we choose to call it.

The roots of art and play lie very close together.

I was attracted to a lot of different art forms - dancing, painting. But there's something about music that people hold so close. It's such a powerful art form, and that's why I live for it.

Art-school girls are very nice.

Nature often lets us down when we most need her; let us turn to art.

I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.

It's not the medium, but the quality of perception and expression, that determines the significance of art.

Art does not have to be dull, to be effective; the artist does not have to be a bore, to be real.

This industry [photography], by invading the territories of art, has become art's most mortal enemy.

You'll need to suffer to make any real art.

My first exploration through art was really through music - I've trained classically with piano for about ten years.

The challenge artists face today is whether to be an underground, unheard genius, or to dilute their art for the marketplace.

Artists recognize other artists as soon as the pencil begins to move.

I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature.

The arts don't exist in isolation.

Government is an art, not a science, and an adventure, not a planned itinerary.

The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to entertain, to make things up. The art of what I do lies not in research or even recollection but primarily in invention.

Though some may think there should be a separation between art/music and politics, it should be reinforced that art can be a form of nonviolent protest.

Photography is an art which touches and grips one's own heart's blood.

Only art means anything.

Science and art have in common intense seeing, the wide-eyed observing that generates empirical information.