Quotes About Creativity

I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.

All art is abstract, because art is an abstraction of the truth.

Art is art. You can take it or leave it. Liking it or not liking it does not make you a better person, and who you like or dislike results in the same thing.

Art and commerce are not irreconciliable, they are inextricably intertwined.

Maybe you are a poet and a dreamer, but don't you realize that those two species are extinct now?

If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad.

Where does contagion end and art begin?

Art is my life and my life is art.

Art is the giving by each man of his evidence to the world. Those who wish to give, love to give, discover the pleasure of giving. Those who give are tremendously strong.

But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it's no go if your personality isn't worth translating.

Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art.

Works of art imitate and provoke other works of art, the process is the source of art itself.

My art is the result of a deeply personal, infinitely complex, and still essentially mysterious, exploration of experience. No words will ever touch it.

An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.

Not everybody has a talent for painting, or for the piano, or for dance. But we can write our way into the artist's head and into his problems and solutions. Or we can go there with another writer.

Great artists are a little too gifted to be bound by boxes and labels, and in saying that, the label 'artist' is to be used lightly.

The Gospel worldview equips the artist with a unique combination of optimism and realism about life.

The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art.

When you steal from an artist you are stealing their blood, sweat and tears.

I appreciated art, long before I could produce it.

All good art cannot help but confront denial on its way to truth.

Works of Art are of an infinite loneliness.

An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.