Quotes About Creativity

Although my everyday artwork is tattoo oriented, I definitely do not try to limit my art or art mediums.

Much of my writing has taken the form of a pilgrimage: to sacred places that represent the best of America, to musicians and other artists who represent the best of their art.

Directing is the ultimate way to bring together all the art forms I've been involved with over the years.

In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely satisfying.

Art for me is like breathing. When I stop breathing, what happens?

Artists are magicians and I definitely think John Lennon was a Wizard.

I'm really happy I was kicked out of CalArts (for a controversial art piece I made).

When I was just getting started making my own music, my dad said, "You should think about art, but also anti-art and non-art."

The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.

The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

Art is making something out of nothing, and selling it.

Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment.

the way to create art is to burn and destroyordinary concepts and to substitute themwith new truths that run down from the top of the headand out of the heart

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way... things I had no words for.

When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty........ but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

When bankers get together for dinner, they discuss Art. When artists get together for dinner, they discuss Money

I have things in my head that are not like what anyone taught me — shapes and ideas so near to me, so natural to my way of being and thinking.

The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

I hope to depart in no other way than looking back with love and wistfulness and thinking, oh paintings that I would have made..

In the fullness of artistic life there is, and remains, and will always come back at times, that homesick longing for the truly ideal life that can never come true.

Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself.She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.