Quotes About Creativity

We are the ORIGIN of our art, its homeland. Viewed this way, ORIGINALITY is the process of remaining true to ourselves.

I am what I am again: a writer. I have metabolized the injury into art.

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea. And few ideas are worse than the ones we have about art.

Cooking hasn't yet been accepted as the art form it is. It should be on the level with any of the other art forms.

You don't have to patronize your audience, and you can mix art and commerce in a profound way. You can simultaneously play to the sophisticated, 60-year-old theatergoers and to 4-year-olds.

When I was growing up, there were a lot more arts in the public schools. Politically, America has screwed up on that.

We have to take risks with art. If we don't, it all becomes a bit boring

Everyone should be able to make art about ideas without getting cornered into self-art.

I will die for the art & what I believe in. The art ain't always gon' be polite.

The arts are an integral part of the city's economic progress.

I guess that storytelling would be for me to keep making art that touches people in a way that nothing else can.

I think comedy and music are both things that we need as human beings. I think that both art forms can touch people.

I made the decision that my contribution needed to be more musical than political. My music was enough, politically. Art matters. Art was enough. My music was enough to say what I had to say.

I wanted to say to myself as much as anyone else that we made art.

I think music can definitely be art; I also think music can be crap and not be art.

I expect art to make me scream, art to reveal soul.

Ya wanna be an artist? Make art!

There is no purity with regards to the marketplace and art, I believe.

Just so [becoming a chef ] that I could support my art habit. You know? I mean, this is - this is something where you've been literally given an opportunity to put the world on pause for a second.

Alexander Pope once wrote that the theater aspires to wake the soul by gentle strokes of art - to raise the genius and to mend the heart.

Remember, the early '60s in London was something - which must have been like Berlin in the '30s when the arts flourished. You didn't have the differences in class, and so on.

My mother and father were interested in the arts.

The great artist takes what he needs.

Twitter is not art. But it inspires me in the way that art used to inspire me.