Quotes About Creativity

When comparing works of art, it is important that the art itself, and not the artists, be considered.

I'm interested in Jackson Pollock's kind of art, where art is beautiful, but it's nothing, and yet it's incredible.

Works of art should be stimulating. They should wake people up rather than acting like a sedative.

The most useful thing about art is it's uselessness.

I collect art books. I have hundreds and hundreds of them and they get me to start hearing things. Sometimes people look at them, but I find that visual art gets me listening, gets me hearing things.

I try to be patient. I feel like the point of art is to go down within yourself and to pop up into other people. If you're lucky, all of a sudden you're like, "whoop!" You're in other people.

I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart.

Art is running away without ever leaving home.

Many artists who don't go off to art school come to New York. It's about what you learn when you're here.

Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like anything else

Art is not a copy of the real world; one of the damn things is enough.

Despite the fact that I'm not highly skilled in any visual art, aesthetics have always played a strong role in my art, including my first albums.

Art is triumphant when it can use convention as an instrument of its own purpose.

You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless. Therefore art is never a document, although it can adopt that style.

For most people, art is only valuable if other people say it is; and artists are only worthwhile if they are either rich and famous, or dead.

The most available example of how poetry works for a poet is yourself, and yet you'll probably be the last one to know exactly how you're serving the art and how the art is serving you.

Works of Art can only be produc'd in Perfection where the Man is either in Affluence or is Above the Care of it.

The mocker of Art is the mocker of Jesus.

All art is political, all art is a martial one.

An art school is generated only by the intensity and heat of a common pressure.

Art is what is irresistible.

That's what art is, shocking people. Sometimes shocking yourself.

Art is an effort to make you walk a half an inch above ground.

Great Art is Great because it inspired you greatly. If it didn't, no matter what the critics, the museums and the galleries say, it's not great art for you.