Quotes About Creativity

I view art as an inspirational tool.

Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it.

What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that is the ability to distinguish patterns out of chaos.

It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art.

Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.

Art in the classroom not only spurs creativity, it also inspires learning.

For me, art is about learning and about living with people. It's alive.

Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly.

I think in Europe, movies are made like a commodity and then sold as art.

Filmmaking can be a fine art.

I'd already decided I wanted to design shoes after I saw a sign in the Museum of African and Oceanic Art forbidding high heels. Well, who could resist?

There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's confusing to know how far you should take it.

Technology adds nothing to art.

Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast.

The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.

When art is defined by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, you've got a society that's impoverished.

In art school we're always taught that art is an end in itself - art for art's sake, expressing yourself, and that that's enough.

One of the biggest things happening in the art world is this idea of expansion. No one embodies this aspect of what art is becoming better than James Franco.

I went to art school for fine art and then I started doing performance art, and then I started making fun of performance art, and it turned into comedy.

Art is incredibly subjective. What is great art to one person isn't necessarily to another.

A series is a big deal, and there are a lot of people out there writing stuff that don't know what art is.

Abstract art: a construction site for high fashion, for advertising, for furniture.

Art is far feebler than necessity.

We like to think of film and music as art, but actually art is something that is not restricted.