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Quotes About Creativity

I have never been sorry to see my sets being struck, provided they are well photographed. They're not works of art but part of making a film.
~ Ken Adam
Art is the most benign cultural practice, and yet art has an upper bound of personal revelation that is so far away it is basically a horizon.
~ Ken Baumann
Art is a necessity, an essential part of our enlightenment process.
~ Ken Danby
Leonardo is the Hamlet of art history whom each of us must recreate for himself.
~ Kenneth Clark
What I'm doing in writing has been thoroughly and exhaustively explored in other fields like visual art, music, and cinema, yet somehow it's never really been tested on the page.
~ Kenneth Goldsmith
Art is the reasoned derangement of the senses.
~ Kenneth Rexroth
Arts education must be part of our education solution because it works for all students.
~ Kerry Washington
I think a lot of making art is listening to yourself.
~ Kiki Smith
The point of art is that it always has the necessity to expand because people are inherently expanding.
~ Kiki Smith
A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.
~ Lafcadio Hearn
Art is art, and journalism is journalism.
~ Lance Reddick
While appropriation art is critical to art, it's an ambiguous art form in the world of the Supreme Court.
~ Lawrence Lessig
All art is infested by other art.
~ Leo Steinberg
Art is both creation and recreation. Of the two ideas, I think art as recreation or as sheer play of the human spirit is more important.
~ Lin Yutang
I want to be the person whose art is accessible, who someone could look at and say "That's doesn't look so hard, I could do that."
~ Unknown
What really drives me mad about art is that, in America, the only thing you can do is to take it apart.
~ M.I.A.
Great art transcends its culture and touches on that which is eternal.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
I believe that all true art is classic, but the dictates of the mind rarely permit of its being recognized as such when it first appears.
~ Marcel Proust
So that's what art is, for the artist," said Crake. "An empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at getting laid.
~ Margaret Atwood
For me, art is supposed to be a question mark.
~ Marilyn Manson
Art is the free expression of the artist and they tried to stop us from expressing ourselves, our art.
~ Marilyn Manson
Immaterial art is the strongest because there's no obstacle; there's just energy, and I believe in energy.
~ Marina Abramovic
Art is like a fart for the soul. Better out than in.
~ Martin Firrell
Photography is Art and Art is Photography.
~ Martin Parr