Quotes About Creativity

As a brown artist, I have mixed feelings about my relationship to art and my "responsibilities" post-Trump.

Chess problems demand from the composer the same virtues that characterize all worthwhile art: originality, invention, conciseness, harmony, complexity, and splendid insincerity

It's impossible to represent a saint [in Art]. It becomes boring. Perhaps because he is, like the Saturday Evening Post people, inthe position of having almost infinitely free will.

Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, depreciating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room.

The arts are the best insurance policy a city can take on itself.

If art depended on content, then one painting of an apple would be as good as the next one.

Don't burden art with words and ideas. Art comes from a deeper place.

If we see an object as a bowl, it may inhibit seeing it as craft, just as seeing it as craft might inhibit seeing it as art. See first; name later.

Anything is OK in art if the art turns out OK.

There are too many artists, too many dealers and too much art.

The Painter who seeks popularity in Art closes the door upon his own genius.

I think some of the musicians are more like punk rock musicians. It's like an art as opposed to being a musician. It's definitely more radical psychedelic bands, more than anything.

Being surrounded by artistic and musical beauty soothes the soul, bringing both quiet calm and creative inspiration. . . .

By translating their inner turmoil or understanding into art, artists challenge the accepted notions of reality and create new ones.

As far as I can see, the history of experimental art in the twentieth century is intimately bound up with the experience of intoxification.

The ignorant Insults of Individuals will not hinder me from doing my duty to my Art

What has reason to do with the art of painting?

Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, from every abstract form, from all that is of the brain only.

How can the arts overcome the slow dying of men's hearts that we call progress ?

The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue.

Made poetry a mere mechanic art.

To produce pure proletarian art the artist must be at one with the worker; this is impossible, not for political reasons, but because the artist never is at one with any public.

The writer's only responsibility is to his art.

O, had I but followed the arts!