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Quotes About Creativity

I'm not the type to turn to drugs and alcohol, but I do have a profound devotion to art and music - and children.
~ Rosanne Cash
Art is continually working to take the crust of familiarity off everyday objects.
~ Rudolf Arnheim
The job of the art is to really convey and support that empathetic response. I always try to find where the character is mushy, and then bring that to the forefront.
~ Ryan Hurst
Art is inspiring. Walking into a gallery, or when the lights go up on a stage; that thrill of getting something that has nothing to do with acquisition.
~ Sadie Jones
Art is an artifice that you try to make seem natural.
~ Sam Lipsyte
The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period.
~ Samuel Butler
Art is an artificial organization of experience.
~ Sara Maitland
Art is the most important thing to me in the entire world. It is my passion. Nothing else. End of story.
~ Sarah Lacy
When I got into art school, I thought it was paradise. I wanted to be an artist so much that I was really driven and nothing could stop me.
~ Sean Scully
I'm not so sure that the value of art is all it is cracked up to be.
~ Selima Hill
Art is never defect-free. Things that are remarkable never meet spec, because that would make them standardized, not worth talking about.
~ Seth Godin
Art is a platform where self-expression should not be limited. I'm here to inspire. There is no age limit to that.
~ Shania Twain
What's great about art is that if you can reach people, if they hear or see what you do and it moves them, there's a commonality.
~ Shawn Colvin
We lose ourselves in stories; that's the beauty of literary art.
~ Siri Hustvedt
The art isn't there to be purchased - it's there to be enjoyed.
~ Stephanie Seymour
Art is often confused with the skill of drawing. It is the skill of making.
~ Unknown
Making art is an act of courage. Do you know who said that?
~ Steve Guttenberg
We go see theater, we take in art because it makes us feel.
~ Steve Kazee
Art is not consciousness per se, but rather its antidote- evolved from within consciousness itself.
~ Susan Sontag
The idea of content in art is today merely a hindrance, a nuisance, a subtle or not so subtle philistinism.
~ Susan Sontag
Art is seduction, not rape.
~ Susan Sontag
Art is just as comprehensible as science, but in its own terms.
~ Susanne Katherina Langer
Of course, in the art class, I was the model.
~ Suzanne Farrell
I'd live in a museum if I could. I used to spend hours and hours in the Museum of Modern Art.
~ Sylvester Stallone