Quotes About Creativity

Repetition is the death of art.

Art doesn't feed me or fill the void when I am not working. If I haven't worked for six months, I can't paint.

I'll walk through fire to do what I do because the movie business, when it's right, is the coolest art form ever invented.

In Europe, people in the arts are considered part of the intelligentsia; they are considered part of the elite

Where there's liberty, art succeeds.

Art strives for form, and hopes for beauty.

One of my goals is to create more art to put out there in the world.

You have to be at the forefront of culture to create art, which they call "product," and Hollywood is not. It's this very old business model, which I think is dying in a lot of ways.

Without art there is no hope.

...if I can do it, it's not art.

I'll be honest, I worry sometimes about what I've done. I have tied my whole person to my art and, whatever it takes to get that hook, I will go there and do it.

I'm not intelligent enough to be a doctor, and kind of hands down you can't argue with the worth of that. But I don't really have an opinion about the worth of making art.

Music is the noise that surrounds the stillness of the art form.

Art can only be taught by artists.

If a nonartist teaches a subject called art, it is nonart.

As a matter of history great developments in art have often been remarkably separate from religious motivation and use.

Photography is art when it's used by an artist.

I believe in the art of literature, I believe in freedom of the imagination, I believe in the kind of liberties that we enjoy in these lucky countries of the world.

I am surprisingly optimistic, though lately that's been hard to maintain. Art and slow, small, close gestures help remind me of my optimism.

The end of writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.

To admire on principle is the only way to imitate without loss of originality.

I think a lot of actors, comedians, musicians, artists are drawn to this world, because you're allowed to excavate whatever it is that you're struggling with, and hopefully turn it into art.

When you have a flourishing of the economy you have a flourishing of the arts.

Shapewear is the canvas and the clothes are the art.