Quotes About Creativity

It's really, really hard to make it as a fine-art photographer exclusively.

Wine pricing is an art - like painting.

Money issue looms so large in art now. And it has absolutely nothing to do with art.

I wanted to make a traditional record that had a lot of art and showed my vulnerable side and showed things I'm passionate about.

There is no patriotic art.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We talk too much. We should talk less and draw more.

Art rests on a kind of religious sense, on a deep, steadfast earnestness; and on this account it unites so readily with religion.

In art it's not the thinking that does the job, but making.

It's easier and sociabler to talk technique than it is to make art.

My art flatters nobody by imitation, it courts nobody by smoothness, nobody by petitelieness without either fal-de-lal or fiddle-de-dee; how then can I hope to be popular?

I think art can reflect tragedy.

If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist.

A mathematical point is the most indivisble and unique thing which art can present.

We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order - poetry; and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible.

I feel like I've gotten to the point where when I get tired of making art I can make a smooth transition into making music and vice versa. There is always something to do.

Design provides solutions, art asks questions.

There's a lot of feeling that the school curriculum has been bare-bones, just drill and, again, no art, music, and so on and so forth.

Homosexual behavior has been exploited, and reveled in, and celebrated in art, for millennia.

Every good piece of art... involves first essentially the evidence of human skill, and the formation of an actually beautiful thing by it.

Engraving then, is, in brief terms, the Art of Scratch.

You can create art that makes people feel better.

To me, figure skating is an art form, and that's what I always try to bring in, even to my competitive programs.

I remember Art Blakey saying to me, "Just remember, we're blessed to do what we do."