Quotes About Creativity

Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works.

Is it conceivable that mysticism is a mark of inadequate art?

Is there no room for art in the spoken language? What is the use of creating an unnatural language to the exclusion of the natural one?

High achievements in art, music, etc., are the results of concentration.

Every artist paints his Madonna according to his own pre-conceived ideas.

In art, interest must be centred on the principal theme.

The sculptor, the painter the musician the dancer, or any artist, if he can first obtain celebrate in Paris, acquires very easily the esteem and eulogy of other countries.

I can tell for sure, the technologists have made it clear that they don't care about musicians. The arts have been sacrificed on the altar of technological advancement.

I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes, you are not creating; you are lecturing.

I think if art has one underlying value, it's that.

There's danger in glorifying negative emotions as fuel for art.

As I discovered music, especially Rock 'n Roll, new territory was opened to me. I was lured by the unbridled rhythm of this art form. It was like gasoline on the fire of my youthful spirit.

Advertising and art are getting all mixed up. I think some of the most exciting pieces of TV are the commercials.

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. Artistic productivity is the capacity for being voluntarily involuntary.

Believe in the importance of your art.

Art inspires me. Looking at art in a museum, listening to music, reading the works of other writers.

Two individuals, conversing honestly, can be inspired by the feeling that they are engaged in a joint enterprise, aiming at inventing an art which has not been tried before.

I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did.

Art's primary social function is to define the communal self, which includes redefining it when the community is changing.

Blest is that government where no art thrives.

There's always been an ongoing struggle between commerce and art.

There is a balance in between where you can still make art, but it does not have to be insular.

You always feel like rock critics are frustrated musicians. I envy musicians their ability to live their art and share it with an audience, in the moment.

In a way, art has always been my way of problem-solving, of getting through situations, of finding my response to things, so to imagine doing something else makes me panic a little bit.