Quotes About Creativity

Art begins when an observer's sensibilities engage with the understatements of a calculating craftsman.

The strategy of keeping the studio close, like an outbuilding five paces from the house, or in the loft next door, or with the studio on one end and the bed on the other - makes art always available.

Art forms render ideas accessible to readers who could not receive those insights in any other format.

There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph or painting.

I am an expert in the 'art of the possible.'

Art itself is underserved when we don't realize the power of it.

The arts can bring the heart to the aid of the head, the personal to the political.

When it comes to performing and entertaining, the art removes itself from the writing.

The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.

Ship small art. Then, ship medium art. Then, ship world-changing, scary, change-your-underwear art.

The search for the right answer is the enemy of art.

This might end up in crying. If you're not prepared to cry about it, I'm not sure you're making art. And if you're not prepared to dance in anticipation, you're definitely not making art.

I wonder if real art comes when you build the thing that they don't have a prize for yet.

You get to keep making art as long as you are willing to make the choices that let you make your art.

We don't need to be taught to make art, but sometimes we need permission to do so. Following instructions is overrated.

As soon as you are willing to say 'it's not for you', you're freed up to make art.

Art isn't only a painting; it's anything that changes someone for the better, any nonanonymous interaction that leads to a human (not simply a commercial) conclusion.

Nothing really attracts me to the film industry, to be perfectly honest. I look at acting as an art, and that's all it is for me. It's just fun.

Art opens the fishiest eye . . .

You know, when I was younger I was into all kinds of art - drawing, painting, all that stuff. But I played drums, played piano forever.

An artist should use freely whatever materials he pleases.

There can be no formula in arts. Formulas are for factory mass productions. There are no discoveries in already discovered formulas.

By using formula in filmmaking we are admitting that film is not art.

I need to be creative, make art every day for my own sanity.