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Quotes About Creativity

Maybe that's where the new art comes in - to somehow have your eye on the marketplace and harness your art to come up with something you can be proud of creatively.
~ Jonathan Demme
I deplore the loss of arts on BBC One and Two.
~ Jonathan Dimbleby
Without art; without paintings, books, sculpture and music, the human soul would be quite impenetrable, don't you think?
~ Jonathan Hull
O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of them, than they of thee.
~ Jonathan Swift
It's essential for me to be working on a nonfiction sort of research project simultaneous with multiple projects that are in different realms of art practice or not.
~ Jonathon Keats
The considerations of a corporation, especially now, have nothing to do with art or music.
~ Joni Mitchell
When the spirit of child's play enters into the creative process, it's a wonderful force and something to be nurtured.
~ Joni Mitchell
The coming of the kids hasn't come out in my art yet.
~ Joni Mitchell
Im inspired by throwing out any darkness that is inside of me. For me, art cures.
~ Jordi Molla
The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
There is a great amity between designing and art.
~ Joseph Addison
One important thing, just being a film composer in general, is to have a great respect for the art that you're working on - a great respect for the film and a great respect for the filmmakers.
~ Joseph Trapanese
I try not to make any boundaries. I try to let all art influence me.
~ Joseph Trapanese
Music, art, landscape - these are all things I draw inspiration from.
~ Josh McDermitt
I like when people have opinions - especially about art. You can hate my art. I made my art to be hated. That's why I made the name paintings.
~ Josh Smith
As an artist, I think you always have to take care of yourself as a person probably even more than the average person because your body is so important to your art.
~ Josh Young
I wish you to be persuaded that success in your art depends almost entirely on your own industry; but the industry which I principally recommend is not the industry of the hands, but of the mind.
~ Joshua Reynolds
Common observation and a plain understanding is the source of all art.
~ Joshua Reynolds
A painter must compensate the natural deficiencies of his art. He has but one sentence to utter, but one moment to exhibit. He cannot, like the poet or historian, expatiate, and impress the mind.
~ Joshua Reynolds
I can do web, comic books, macrame, art.
~ Joss Whedon
Tragedy is the highest form of art.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
The greatest works of literature seem to embody both "art" and "morality".
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Obviously, there is pleasure in the execution of any sort of art, and using language, as Nabokov felt also, is an exquisite process.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Writing is the most solitary of arts.
~ Joyce Carol Oates