Quotes About Creativity

I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.

My old school in Liverpool is now a performing-arts school, and I kind of teach there - I use the word lightly - but I go there and talk to students.

Everything is in New York or L.A. or whatever, but Chicago is more of, like, a real world. It has the art and the music, but it's more centered and grounded.

I was engaged in all the required courses of math and geometry, but the area that I blossomed in was the art program.

Art doesn't come in measured quantities: it's got to be too much or it's not enough.

Movies have been doing so much of the same thing - in slightly different ways - for so long that few of the possibilities of this great hybrid art have yet been explored.

I'm really happy with all the art that was inspired by religion, and I think I'd be tickled to little tiny pieces if art in the future was inspired by other things.

The nice thing about growing up in that kind of environment is you were exposed to so much -- music, plays, art exhibits, rock concerts.

Fashion is the art of making the unimportant indispensable.

The arts tend to be more liberal. There tends to be more social relevance in the arts.

Silent films were, I think, more different than we know to sound films. We think of it as simply that we added dialogue and in actual fact I think it was an entirely different art form.

Every piece of technology, every piece of art, basically everything manmade comes from an idea.

In every art the desire to practice it precedes both the full ability to do so and the possession of something worthwhile to express by its means.

He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

Photography has always been a struggle for me to take seriously as an art form.

Nature without exercise is a seed shut up in a pod, and art without practice is nothing.

I studied art just short of the level where you can earn a degree.

Art has a unique capacity to take one or other facet of the message and translate it into colors, shapes and sounds which nourish the intuition of those who look and listen.

I'd say, if you want to be an artist, start with your art; start with making great music and it will, hopefully, eventually cut through all of the nonsense that is out there.

Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.

The value of art lies in its power to increase our moral force or establish its heightening influence.

I see films in theaters, and I enjoy films. I enjoy the art of storytelling, and the different ways to tell them.

I wanted to represent the world as a temporary art installation continuously changing. I wanted to consider it unreal and unfinished, judge and transform it, a possibility that only art gives us.

I don't take art as seriously as politics.