Quotes About Creativity

Performance has to be mainstream art. This is what I'm fighting for.

when you are dealing with art, any kind of art, your pleasure in making it is what matters most.

Like everyone, I want to make my own "fine art."

I don't consider myself a songwriter, I've tried, I've written a few with friends but that's an art form I'm gonna leave to guys like Jimmy Ritchey and Kevin Fowler.

I really believe in constantly trying to find and support new ways of watching independent art, because the old ways are not working as well.

I'm fascinated with video games, though I can't really play them. It's definitely an art form that intrigues me to no end, though.

Do I suffer for my art? Well, I get a lot of flatulence when I'm nervous.

Despite the persistent image of the architect as a heroic loner erecting monumental edifices through sheer force of will, the building art has always been a highly cooperative enterprise.

Entertainment and art are not isolated. Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.

You really can't bring about anything new with art

I am rather like a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas. I do much more for people than just paint them pictures.

A community united by the ideals of compassion and creativity has incredible power. Art of all kinds---music, literature, traditional arts, visual arts---can lift a community.

my credo is very short. Its first article is art - and its second is art - and its third is art!

Cleveland is really good about recognizing its artists because of the Arts Council.

My films have elements of genre in them, which prevents them from being purely art films.

The economy of gift, of art, is fundamentally opposed to the economy of war.

All I really need is my bed and my art around me.

The world of sight is still limitless. It is the artist who limits vision to the cramped dimensions of his own ego.

Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain, and sometimes shock; but its ultimate function is to ennoble.

Avant-garde art jousts with propriety, but takes care never to unseat it.

The Muses inspire art and pretend not to notice when Mammon buys it.

Colour can be the true main thing in art that is widely valued – even valued by the maker of the art – for other meanings.

Making a living in the arts, though, creates so many jobs for other people.

In art, theories are as useful as a doctor's prescription; one must be sick to believe them.