Quotes About Creativity

I think furniture is art. I don't think art is just for your walls - I think everything that someone has made is a piece of art.

I have little art piece, a kind of short film thing I filmed with my friend. It's going to be 20 minutes, and we're going to submit it into festivals but also going to art galleries.

I think so much of art is unconscious anyway, the artist doesn't know the real reason they're doing it. They're just kind of going along with it intuitively.

Art is manipulation, the management of material, the directing of fate... Who does that directing?

I'd been used to this idea of destructive performance art instead of a slick, good-sounding show. So, I became frustrated as I felt I'd been doing the shows wrong. That sucked.

For me taking a pragmatic decision when it comes to art is almost an oxymoron. The reason I first picked up a pen and wrote a story had nothing pragmatic in it.

grievance does not make for great art.

I was forced to make the decision between art and music which are the only two things I liked as opposed to being able to do them both because that's what I was interested in.

the one universal form of art is music.

Currencies are things that you use to pay for other things; commodities are things that you buy. If art is going to be one or the other, it's going to be a commodity, not a currency.

No art is sunk in the self, but rather, in art the self becomes self-forgetful in order to meet the demands of the thing seen and the thing being made.

As the art world changes, artists have more and more responsibility. You don't have a lot of luxury to be super secluded.

Art is both a vengeance against reality and a reconciliation with it.

In the art world Robert Rauschenberg had been combining common materials that people thought was art and beautiful, and it was. If he could do that, I could emulate him.

Art is the right hand of Nature.

Only a lunatic would think that art is superior to nature.

Music and acting are the same thing: you must understand that art is only the search, not the final form.

Art is the one thing that's the universal virtue that you can have in any class.

Art is a wicked thing. It is what we are.

Some poems are art because of their passion.

Art isn't everything. It's just about everything.

No artist knows everything... but since every artist knows more than he can tell, all art is lying by omission.

My art was not an answer - it was a question.

The same person is coming through in a different medium.... My art is simple, direct and definite.