Quotes About Creativity

To me, my parents are my mom and dad, and we were able as kids to do a lot of cool things. Just being part of that family definitely brought out and cultivated the creative arts in us.

There is no gap between art and politics.

When I was 10, I knew there was something different about me. Everyone was football-mad, but I just wanted to watch musicals and see art.

You are the artist and the art.

Art can teach without at all ceasing to be art.

I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don't talk about art.

I think art must be the place where you are protected from the logic of the outside world.

Religion is in every aspect of art, when it's not baroque.

A society that forgets about art risks loslng its soul.

Many other cultures value poetry more than we do. In Ireland, poetry is a top cultural pursuit, the art to end all arts.

"We can't name it, but we can sing along." That is my ultimate relationship to any art form, but especially music.

Culture civilizes us, and that's why every single despotic regime has tried to smash [the arts].

We need grief as a precursor to emotional refreshment, and so consume it vicariously in somewhat titrated but powerful enough form through engagement with the arts.

All art points to others with whom the writer argues about what is . . . He must have models with which to agree . . . or outright oppose . . . for Nature seems to remain silence.

...an industry which can furnish results identical to nature must be the absolute in art.

It reminded me of that tongue-in-cheek quick history of art I'd overheard...Used to be people couldn't draw very well, then they could, and now they can't again.

There are portraits and still-lifes And the first, because 'human' Does not excel the second

I'm interested in art, and I think about the process of making art. It's part of my personality, my experience of the world, so it ends up in the movies. It's where my head is.

Film is the only art form whose raw materials are so horrendously expensive that the artist cannot afford to buy them for himself.

You have to experiment with different mediums and things around you [making art].

I liked museums but I wanted to be a dancer, I wanted to go into performing arts, or be a writer.

My mother was the most creative, fantastic person and would come up with great things for us to do. She'd buy art supplies and all of us would sit around painting. I was lucky.

Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to bear in our lives.

Football is an art form in itself. All sports are.