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Quotes About Creativity

Art is gushing hot bile on the fields and harvesting the looks of nasty dwarfs.
~ Gunter Brus
Art is created in a state of delirium. Anyting else is the restoration of monuments. Collectors are artist that do not have a home. they have to make one for themselves.
~ Gunter Brus
I wanted to be a painter and an artist. And it's interesting that in some of my later musical works, I refer so often and associate myself with works of art.
~ Gunther Schuller
Only through apprehending, by means of present-day creations, how art is created, can the creations of other periods be genuinely appreciated.
~ Harold Rosenberg
Greatness in art is always a by-product.
~ Harold Rosenberg
I just feel that art is more important than ever, that art is something that can unify us, that can make America stronger.
~ Hector Tobar
Art is a place where you can be wild. Kids-all of us-need that.
~ Helen Hunt
Art is a point of view, and a genius way of looking at things.
~ Henry James
I'm always on the look out for 'the good image'. I'm like The Borg (you know, Star Trek) inasmuch as I assimilate everything - but I like to think I'm working in the Pop Art tradition.
~ Horace Panter
I doubt if there is a single really excellent art school now available in New York.
~ Howard Pyle
Art is great only when it bears the stamp of the individual.
~ Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Art is a kind of artificial memory and the pain which attends all serious art is a sense of that factitiousness.
~ Iris Murdoch
The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself.
~ Irving Stone
Art is the human process that produces by the way (it is not its only or ultimate object) Secondary Belief.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness
~ J. W. N. Sullivan
Art is only worth what people will pay for it. Artists do not get paid by the hour.
~ Jack White
I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.
~ Jackie DeShannon
You can't really have art without having a sense of community as art is for others to enjoy as well.
~ Jaime Zevallos
Great Art is collaborative but not democratic. It's OK to be the boss
~ Unknown
I think that's what all art is for - for people to express what it is to be human. That's the purpose of it.
~ Jarvis Cocker
Art is an adventure that never seems to end.
~ Jason Calacanis
I feel that works of art are an opportunity for people to construct meaning, so I don't usually tell what they mean. It conveys to people that they have to participate.
~ Jasper Johns
The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
~ Jean Cocteau
Art is enchantment and artists have the right of spells.
~ Jeanette Winterson