Quotes About Creativity

I see art in everything. Your shoes. That car. This coffee cup. It's art if you see it as art.

Art is what you get away with

I must have flowers, always and always.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine

[N]othing is more easily corrupted than an artist.

Art never comes from happiness

art is never finished, only abandoned

You need feeling, emotion, to create. You can't create out of indifference.

Art is inextricably tied to man's survival - not to his physical survival, but to that on which his physical survival depends: to the preservation and survival of his consciousness.

What keeps my heart awake is colorful silence.

..it has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don't know the artistic side of a painting.

A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent

Artists strive for perfection. But what they often fail to see is that the beauty, the humanity, lies within the flaws.

Edsel is the artist in our family. Art is something I know nothing about.

Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Good artists exist simply in what they make and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

One of the most difficult things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.

Painting is a faith and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

Two boys arrived yesterday with a pebble they said was the head of a dog until I pointed out that it was really a typewriter.

Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.

It's clever but is it art?

Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.