Quotes About Creativity

The point is that the arts are important enough to have influenced the greatest minds and talents we know. Albert Einstein said that if he were not a physicist, he would probably be a musician.

The ability to workshop in stand-up comedy is incomparable to any art form, in my opinion.

Video games have become this really weird medium where it's not quite mainstream but it's not quite art either.

The religions never wanted an art where you paint only what you see.

It's only at this age that I can say the word 'art' without flinching.

If it takes you seven years to write each novel, you need a patron. And I would rather have my corporate self as my patron than any arts council or bestower of grants.

Novel writing is the slowest art form in the world. It is not a sprint. It is not even a marathon. It is a series of marathons that stretch over and over across a continent.

I really want to make art. I want to create something that's going to have a lasting impact.

shocked to realize how much vitality is required simply to support our primitive requirements, we wonder, bewildered, where Art fits in.

Art, if it is art, will develop in whatever circumstances it is placed.

I realize that I live in the same environment that I did when I was a kid, but with less junk and better art.

All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration.

I enjoy the art, and I enjoy drawing. I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book.

Cooking is an art, but all art requires knowing something about the techniques and materials. Using modernist techniques, you get more control, and that allows you to be more artistic, not less!

It doesn't matter what it is, it doesn't matter if you have training or a background in it. Just create something, and lend a piece of yourself to that art.

The highest triumph of art, is the truest presentation of nature.

I deal with emotional pain through therapy, writing, therapy in music. I think emotional pain is best dealt with when you use art to express it.

Music is the sole art which evokes nostalgia for the future.

The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of

Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes. Frigidaires are perfect. Beauty limps. My frigidaire has had to be replaced.

I don't think it would be fun to write after inhaling art fumes. (What are art fumes?) No, I just make stuff up. It's easier that way.

I am fascinated a) by transgressive art and b) what happens beyond the boundaries.

I have a healthy view of what one can do with art.

Making art for me is not fun in the sense of la, la, la, la, but it's something that I find very absorbing and very satisfying.