Quotes About Creativity

Everybody has a direct view of the person "behind" the art, so there is going to be a certain amount of awareness of who is making songs. But I like paintings where you can see the brush-strokes.

A great artist can change society because of the entertaining and mesmerizing quality of his or her art.

Art should look like art, trees and flowers and people, not weird shapes and splotches of color all smeared together.

Headline writing is an art form.

We go for our own reality. I remember some of our guys saying it is way harder to make stylized art directed explosions of jade rather than a regular explosion of shrapnel.

As I said, i'm very quiet, i don't go around saying "I'm awesome!" but when I brought in my portfolio into DreamWorks and showed them what I could do, my art style is a lot wilder than I am.

My plan was to never get married. I was going to be an art monster instead.

When there were financial difficulties they still managed to provide us with music and art lessons.

There are many, many art worlds. Art contains multitudes.

Recessions are hard on people, but they are not hard on Art.

All art comes from other art, and all immigrants come from other places.

Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness.

To me, the building [of Museum of Arts and Design]now looks like a lovely jewel box, and the tiled façade reminds me of a heat shield.

Craft is not a category; it's a means. The folks running the museum [Museum of Arts and Design]are sharp, and they know this, but they are in a bind.

In the arts there are many right answers.

You don't have to go to New York and you don't have to go to LA or London. Go somewhere cheap. Go somewhere with free art museums and then just go to art museums.

Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive.

Performance became part of my art in a way - expressing things and emotion.

I haven't made art about Israel. There's a covert subtext of Jewish identity in my artwork.

The artist had captured a moment that went on suggesting other moments in the mind of the beholder. This, Timmon told me, was what every painter, every singer, every craftsman sought to create.

The arts and humanities are vastly more important in troubled times.

The arts are the signature of a nation.

I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it.

What I'm good at is making art.