Quotes About Creativity

Rule of art: let half-blind purpose lead you.

As my uncle always says, 'If your vibe outweighs your substance, you're destined to be a novelty.' I think that is true in all art.

If I've grown as an artist, it will be represented in the art. There's no need to explain it.

The brightest sun of the art always rises on the horizons of unhappiness.

Art cannot progress by sticking to what is already familiar.

Art and irony would disintegrate the personality, kitsch makes it whole.

I'm just open to new experiences. I've never really settled down into one art. I like to be nomadic with my art.

And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people.

I don't think I am going to do pictures which are anything like Renaissance art.

I feel lost not doing art, unsatisfied, anxious, bored. Everything else in comparison seems not terribly important.

If I were only allowed to read or enjoy art or listen to music made by people whose opinions and beliefs were the same as mine, I think the world would be a pretty dismal sort of a place.

No art should be fashionable.

Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things.

If you're a struggling artist having money problems just superglue a brick in the middle of a blanket, and call it art. Someone will buy it.

If it has a use it isn't art.

If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.

It's nice to have a little bit of art to fall back on.

Artists make art... everyone else talks about it.

The art of fiction does not begin until the novelist thinks of his story as a matter to be shown, to be so exhibited that it will tell itself.

The destruction of images, the first signs of which reach back to the 1920s, eliminated a lot of kitsch and unworthy art, but ultimately it left behind a void.

Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.

I write because I write - as anyone in the arts does. You're a painter because you feel you have no choice but to paint. You're a writer because this is what you do.

...combining the concrete and the universal is at the center of what makes art important.

Without an elite in the arts, we have no leaders, which is to say we have no vision, which is to say we have no arts.