Quotes About Creativity

When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.

Art is a never-ending dance of illusions.

I was attracted to things that combined art and science equally. I've always been equally interested in art design, science and engineering.

I think I always knew that I would do something with art because it was the one thing that I knew I was really good at.

The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world.

All art is someone trying to tell you something.

I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning.

Art is something out of the ordinary commenting on the ordinary.

I grew up in the art world.

Making music and art is about expressing something that's universally human, maybe even beyond human, at best.

Art is a business, like any other.

If art is the poetic interpretation of nature, photography is the exact translation; it is exactitude in art or the complement of art. (1854)

Art is really about how you capture different things you see around you and bring them into forms and words and shapes and meaning.

I started to paint in the year 2000. I never thought of going to an art school, even though I loved art.

The art world seems so much bigger than it was when I was growing up.

Making art is different for everyone.

I feel like contemporary art is everywhere now and with the rise of the internet, it's so much easier to see what artists are doing and to follow their careers.

Duchamp is known for calling a thing art, rather than making it. A lot of that is picked up in pop art, too.

I had no idea what art was. There was one art class in high school, but it didn't make a big impression on me. Then I went to college and thought I'd become a writer.

Writing is a performance art for me. They're very closely aligned, writing and performing. But I'm a writer, not a performer.

Art is fast, but with art you're tied down. That's too negative. What I mean is, you have a business and a place that you go every day. I guess some artists do move around.

Great art is created only through diligent and painstaking effort to perfect and polish oneself.

For me, art is always a kind of theater.

I quite like it to be risky. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet. I've arrived at that point in the art world where there really is a chair that you sit in.