Quotes About Creativity

It has always been recognized that chess is an art, and its best practitioners have been described as artists.

Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.

Art makes nothing happen in a way that makes something happen.

Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help

Listening to great music and art inspires me and recharges me.

All of those art-based fields are similar in that they're all hard to make a living in and they all require an intense amount of training and discipline.

I actually got into music because of art and because of skateboarding: All those graphics and punk bands and fanzines - they were glued together in my brain.

You can choose to be mad in a negative way where it fuels you to do mean, hateful things, or you can let your madness fuel your art and channel it in a positive way.

Photography is better than art. It is a solar phenomenon in which the artist collaborates with the sun.

It is my hope that photography may fall in line with all the other arts and with her infinite possibilities, do things strange and more fascinating than the most fantastic dreams.

Why should not the camera artist break away from the worn out conventions and claim the freedom of expression which any art must have to be alive.

On many days, harder than the act of making the art itself is the act of sharing it and living in a culture that you know is built to tear you down.

It would nice to live in a world where art can just be art!

I had very literal parents and I wanted to survive with metaphor and art, and there was a real sense of shame around it.

There's a huge cloud of shame around art and business being seen as bedfellows.

We must stop chasing dollars, stop lying, stop cheating, stop ignoring art, literature, and all the refining agencies and instrumentalities of civilization.

Someone told me once that to create true art you must be willing to bleed and let others watch.

Great emotion always tends to become rhythmic, and out of that tendency the forms of art have been evolved. Art becomes artificial only when the forms take precedence over the emotion.

How hard, how desperately hard, is the way of the experimenter in art!

Some jobs you do - maybe you don't - are jobs that pay mortgages and some are art and I don't care about not being paid on those.

I've never really dreamed of owning a home. I don't think you go into the arts and also dream of owning a home.

To be able to do art, it was a luxury to me.

I truly believe the art's larger than the artist. Who cares about John Steinbeck? I care about the Joad family.

An artist cannot get along without a public; and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back on his age, he looks toward the future for what the present denies.