Quotes About Creativity

Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship.

Our art culture makes no attempt to search the past for precedents, but transforms the entire past into a sequence of provisional responses to a problem that remains intact.

Only the poor can create art.

I like to dress up but I'm not so concerned with looking very sexy, it's really more the art of dressing.

The history of modern culture is a history of popular entertainments evolving into art.

In the arts they call it plagiarism, in business they call it competition.

Art you can flush down the loo means nothing to me, even were the loo to be selected by Marcel Duchamp

It's art that's taught me to think and to write.

Art for me is a form of nourishment. I need the land. I need it.

If you're someone who's making film or TV or music, or any kind of art form now, there's a billion outlets and they all have an opinion.

Empty space is never-wasted space. Wasted space is any space that has art in it.

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations.

Photography has been a passion of mine since I was 15. After my kids were born I found myself incorporating my photography into different art endeavors and from there it just blossomed.

The tricky thing about being a writer, or about being any kind of artist, is that in addition to making art you also have to make a living.

He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not for his own.

I went to college at North Carolina School of the Arts and took a lot of singing classes, and it really is so connected to emotions.

Art simply can't be stopped.

Commit to finding the true nature of art. Go for that thing no one can teach you.

I think some of our most talented people are not going to pick the arts as a way that they're going to spend their lives.

timeliness is an enemy to art.

Art can do much, but this maxim's most sure/A weak or wounded brain admits no cure.

Artists are meant to be madmen, to disturb and shock us.

artists often lie behind on the field long after the art combine, the broad-bladed harvester of informed criticism, has mowed, bailed, and stored the crop.

I've always cared more about taking pictures than about the art market.