Quotes About Creativity

I attended the Columbus College Of Art & Design for a little while, until I realized they didn't take cartooning very seriously.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations is really an uncreative mind.

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty...an America which will reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in business or statecraft.

Not many people realise this, but you don't actually learn anything at art college any more; however, you do have to go there to find that out.

Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

Obsession is beautiful. It's what makes art.

I went back to my mother's house recently and I saw some of my earlier works as a 15-year-old art student. And a lot of them were reiterations of classic works.

Coming into Pacifica I knew that I wanted whatever I was going to learn there, I knew I wanted to integrate that into my art no matter what.

Being American is, I think, a very difficult thing in art, because all the elements are European.

The way I look is part of it. It sounds affected but I do see myself as a piece of living art.

I am one of the heretics who believes that art must be enjoyed first and analyzed later.

Nobody needs an Artist, but everyone needs ART.

If you're an artist, you've got to prove it.

A true artist is driven by the never-ending desire to create.

If you want to explore, go do it. If you want to try different types of art, do it.

Let your deafness no longer be a secret - even in art.

I wanted to kill art for myself.. ..a new thought for that object.

No form of nature is inferior to art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.

Maybe in any art you have to be wholly you in the context of whatever you're doing.

There's nothing more tragic than artists from the 70s still doing art from the 70s.

Songwriting is a mysterious art. When I sit down to write a song, the end result should be mysterious and have this dark quality.

If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.

Art can make chaos seductive.

Critics are more committed to the rules of art than artists are.