Quotes About Creativity

Art is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar. We have to recognize that the language of art, all art, is not our mother tongue.

It's so much of what art and creativity are, being able to confront your own demons. If you can do that, you can get through just about everything.

From 1940 to the present, the art world and particularly Los Angeles, has undergone a transformation not unlike the Italian Renaissance.

Andy Warhol defined Pop Art.

I think the benefits are tremendous, and the power of accessibility in art is one of it's most explosive and insidious attributes.

Art is not disposable.

I believe that while art is always beyond morality, it is never above it.

Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.

I like that the art world isn't regulated.

Money is something that can be measured; art is not. It's all subjective.

Contrary to popular opinion, things don't go stale particularly fast in the art world.

I'm all about supporting anyone whose art is also the way they make their living.

I'm a bit of a lefty. I like the idea of art and music collectives.

Somebody said us artists have trouble with success because art is derived from struggle. I disagree with that, because truely doing your art is success, whether you make money from it or not.

I don't make a division between an art film and commercial art.

Art isn't just paint and music, art is breaking glass and the sounds we make without realizing.

My art became very public.

True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over.

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres.

Art is a mediator of the unspeakable.

Art is amoral, whether we accept this or not; it does not take sides. The finest fictions are cold at heart.

Art is a statement of one in the face of all; not a statement by one for the use of all.

One of the challenges to our nation today is overcoming the notion that art is kind of a nice-to-have, when in reality art is a need-to-have.