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Quotes About Creativity

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about.
~ Rumi
Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.
~ Salvador Dali
It's frightening for one artist to see another one, any other one turn away from art.
~ Samuel R. Delany
My body is my art, and it's also the tool that I use to make money.
~ Sasha Grey
I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos.
~ Saul Bellow
The more realistic you are the more you threaten the grounds of your own art.
~ Saul Bellow
You have to challenge people to reconsider what is art, what is taste. Because it's someone's point-of-view.
~ Sean Stone
All I owe the world is my art.
~ Sherman Alexie
She danced because she needed to. She needed to say things which could be said in no other way, and she needed to take her meaning and her living from the saying of them.
~ Spider Robinson
The art finds kingdoms in a foot of ground.
~ Stephen Vincent Benet
No art comes from the conscious mind.
~ Steve Martin
I received my training at an art academy, so what I produce is art. That's what is artistic about my photographs.
~ Thomas Ruff
When you understand a species' art, you understand that species.
~ Timothy Zahn
Art cannot be subordinate to its subject, otherwise it is not art but biography.
~ Tom Stoppard
Artists are prophets. They define the meaning of our lives and point the way.
~ Unknown
I'm a terrible cook, but if I could cook, I would see that in art as well, it's how much creative energy you put into something.
~ Tracey Emin
All artists are two-headed calves.
~ Truman Capote
While most people in the arts think they have to be constantly looking forward to be edgy and creative....the real secret of creativity is to go back and remember.
~ Twyla Tharp
if you want to create art, you'd best have a deep belief in yourself and no ulterior motives.
~ Twyla Tharp
Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.
~ V. S. Naipaul
The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts.
~ Victor Hugo
Every artist, as child of his age, is impelled to express the spirit of his age.
~ Wassily Kandinsky
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin.
~ Willa Cather
Nothing can come out of an artist that is not in the man.
~ H. L. Mencken