Quotes About Creativity

Art is a conduit toward human needs and perception.

Art is a journey of discovery.

If you can draw the stone rightly, everything within reach of art is also within yours.

What's beautiful about art is that it circumscribes a space, a physical and mental space. If you try to put the entire world into every page, you turn out chaos.

Computers creating art is an upsetting concept mostly because of what it means about humans.

The art of writing is mysterious, the opinions we hold are ephemeral.

Art is good but it isn't the best.

Perhaps art is simply an organism's reaction against its retentive limitations.

Just as our historical beginnings are utterly mysterious-why are we born? why when and as we are?-so too are the beginnings of works of art and of "artists.

Art is one of the few careers without a mandatory retirement age.

Art is a spiritual practice. We may not, and need not, do it perfectly.

Making art is a rite of initiation. People change their souls.

There are only fools who believe that art is a serious matter.

The art is just really mysterious. If I understood it more, maybe I would write more.

Art is not boosterism, it's not propaganda, and it's not spin, but that's not something that art does, and nor has it historically ever done it.

Speaking out and creating art that truly reflects the world we live in goes part of the way towards doing that. At least that's what I hope.

I'm extremely critical. I don't consider myself a performance artist. I balk at the term performance art.

I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

Many with careers in the art world are intimidated, and afraid to speak out against the gospels of Modernist theory.

Teaching is performance art.

Just because you're wearing a goofy hat doesn't make it performance art.

I think it was a matter of, like, I'm not going to have my kids in these wild streets. Both my twin brother and I were in art school together.

I was 11 when I was first introduced to live drawing classes and going to art school.

I don't think rock n' roll songwriters should worry about art. I don't think it comes into it...as far as I'm concerned, Art is just short for Arthur.