Quotes About Creativity

How did Haydn and Mozart produce such vast quantities of formally perfect art? They worked from a perfect formula. In music, Beethoven was the Great Emancipator.

Art should never try to be popular.

Art for art's sake is dead, if it ever lived.

People who make films don't think they have any obligation to help bring (perpetrators) to justice. They are only interested in art, not in justice.

Art feels like it has this frame, and it's either outside or inside.

I don't think hip-hop is a dying art form. I think it's impossible for hip-hop to be a dying art form.

I just get the feeling that if Jesse Helms was in charge of art in America, you'd go into a museum and see nothing but prints of dogs playing cards.

Precepts, conventions - above all traditions - have no value in art.

[Sundance] still feels like an incredible place for championing emerging voices and art.

Art isn't something you do or are. It's where you aim, the target you shoot at.

I'm inspired by anything. Not even just art, just anything that's real and vulnerable.

for my own purpose, I defined the art of fiction as experience illuminated.

As art sinks into paralysis, artists multiply. This anomaly ceases to be one if we realize that art, on its way to exhaustion, has become both impossible and easy.

For me, I see filmmaking as art.

Music is reflection of self.

Doing art that has a happy ending, that doesn't seem really corny, is extremely difficult to pull off convincingly.

Art grabs people by their eyeballs, it seduces them. Especially if the picture is very beautiful or very sexy or just really weird, if it has some surreal element in it.

Art keeps one young, I think, because it keeps one perpetually a beginner, perpetually a child.

I think that, like any art, fashion is about expression. It allows you to express yourself and your identity through what you choose to wear.

I learned how to have a little bit of distance when I explained songs and a little bit of distance when I wrote them. I think this is more interesting any way in art.

They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.

A few words about the question of whether photography is art or not: I never understood the question.

I think we [with Riccardo Tisci] share a sensibility about art - we pull from the ancient future.

In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been.