Quotes About Creativity

Art curates compassion. Art to me breaks down walls and allows us to step into somebody else's shoes.

I want to always do things that are very current and pushing the boundaries of the way we create art.

Great stories don't often make great movies. Its' a crafted art form.

One day I would like to have my own art show.

When studio art started being seen as important, I joined Colab, and then I became very involved.

If there's any literary ability in a feller, getting fired out of a good government job will bring it out.

You go in and record and sing them some and you go back in and rerecord and sing them some more. That's kind of how I did this album [The Art of Elegance].

I had to cut a lot of things I wanted to keep [in The Art of Elegance]. I'm going to have to do a part two for sure.

People should practice an art in order to make their souls grow and not to make money or become famous. Paint a picture. Write.

Money is completely boring to me. It means nothing, except it feeds my art. Every penny I make goes back into the Haus of GaGa. My Haus of GaGa is something like Andy Warhol's Factory.

Any idealism is a proper subject for art.

There's huge amounts of nonsense that goes with everything surrounding music and art. All the things you have to do promote yourself - there's huge amounts of nonsense.

When I see a beautiful piece of art, it inspires me to be creative.

Sometimes it's good to get mad, sometimes it clarifies where we stand. I think that art has the ability to challenge and push, and that's great. That's better than great... it's necessary.

It's wonderful that nothing you write is ever going to be as beautiful as what's in your head, because that gap is where the art can enter and begin to stretch its limbs.

Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.

I rarely listen to the music for the sheer pleasure. I'm listening for the tool, I'm listening for the instrument, I'm listening for the art.

I'm so in awe of what visual artists do and I do understand the differences of what visual artists do. I have a small art collection I hope to expand.

All art has this characteristic-it unites people.

Art begins when a man, with a purpose of communicating to other people a feeling he once experienced, calls it up again within himself and expresses it by certain external signs.

Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this.

In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this is that the conception of art has been based on the conception of beauty.

How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains.

Men talk about art, and artists make art, but should artists talk?