Quotes About Creativity

The technical phase can be boring because there is little opportunity for creavivity, for art. Boredom leads to complacency and mistakes.

With this mistake I deprived myself of the possibility to make a contribution to the treasury of chess art.

Even though I don't sing any more, singing was my first education in the arts, and it's clear to me that my training as a musician also shaped me as a writer.

I began my career in the arts as a model, before adding my hats as an actress, a photographer, a journalist and now, filmmaker. I've seen and experienced it all.

There is no Art made without power, and there is no reason for Art to be made except for power.

If some of the greats had followed the traditional ways we would be missing so much fine art.

I don't see art as entertainment.

As an artist, I have been a risk-taker. And I've done a lot of different things. I don't make it easy for people. Identification is difficult. One doesn't recognize my art right away.

Unlike the expressionists, I have never been interested in renewing the world through the vehicle of art.

The arts are part of a nation's identity, they are part of a nation's soul and when we look at a country from the eyes of people overseas they are part of a nations branding in the world as it were.

Fine art, poetry, that kind of thing, elevates a nation.

The artist is called a creator.

In art, progress lies not in an extension, but in a knowledge of limitations.

Progress in art does not consist in reducing limitations, but in knowing them better.

I see a flower. It gives me a sensation of the beautiful. I wish to paint it. And as soon as I wish to paint it I see the whole subject - flower - changed. It is now an art problem to resolve.

there is art and there is official art, there always has been and there always will be.

Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.

There's nothing about interdependence that would keep somebody from making art.

Most art in the world does not have a capital 'A,' but is a way of turning everyday objects into personal expressions.

I believe that art has incredible power.

The Ohio State University has a rich - if quiet - heritage of the arts.

Truman Capote has made lying an art. A minor art.

And dance is wonderful because dance is so immediate.

I actually build my dreams around the dancers I've got in my company.