Quotes About Creativity

When we accept bad art because it's good politics, we're killing the swan to feed the chickens.

I like Thelonious Monk, he's so gnarled, he's like a piece of machinery that's pulled up the bolts on the floor and gone off on its own.

But where there is no art show, I would still be painting.

I've got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I'd like even more.

If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there's no point in it....for me, every act of the art of solving a mystery.

Anything that reflects the human condition back on humans in the entertainment medium is art.

There are dance artists, painting artists and writing artists. Authors are writing artists. You can practice art in whatever medium you choose, and words are mine.

Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously enough.

Memphis held onto me until I was far enough along in my art and then it let me go.

Corporately contrived art product replaces inspired intellectual property with ineffectual poperty.

I guess tennis is my main art, but fashion is definitely very close.

So many people seem to imagine that because the actual tools of writing are easily accessible, it is less difficult than the other arts. This is entirely an illusion.

In the domain of art there is no light without heat.

What art does is it makes you feel alive and makes you feel like you're connected.

Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.

You cant just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.

When I do a still picture, I'm doing it all by myself with no help. I'm designing everything. I am my own art director. I'm doing everything. I'm directing, editing, whatever.

I think too many people look at the arts with a religious outlook. Arts, music, singing and performing, it's all make-believe.

Painting as it is now promises to become more subtle - more like music and less like sculpture - and above all it promises color. If only it keeps this promise.

You cannot cross the narrow bridge of art carrying all its tools in your hands. Some you must leave behind.

I have been and continue to be committed to art as a tool to ignite, comfort, and discomfort.

I do use art as a site of protest, particularly in relation to dominant narratives.

It's exciting to consider how art, in its ability to reveal, can be ahead of the artist.

Art can sometimes be separate from the artist.