Quotes About Creativity

I always suspect an artist who is successful before he is dead.

An artist has to take life as he finds it. Life by itself is formless wherever it is. Art must give it form.

Art upsets science reassures.

An artist has been defined as a neurotic who continually cures himself with his art.

The terror of art lies in the representation of the hidden reality with its shattering effect.

Drawing is speaking to the eye talking is painting to the ear.

When one admires an artist it is important not to know him personally.

Art for art's sake.

Art is difficult transient is her reward.

The artist does not see things as they are but as he is.

Picasso created blank spaces through which an imagination could fly.

You do manage a somewhat religious attitude toward your art. It is a calling rather than a job.

Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.

I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college.

It's not a science when you are judging art, but we'd be remiss to say you can't look at something and say, 'This is more well done than that.'

My art teacher told me I'd be suited to graphic design, but I just couldn't, because it was what my dad had done.

My parents always knew that I loved music. They just didn't think I'd try to make it a career. They thought I'd be a painter or an art teacher or something like that.

'Rookie' is not your guide to Being a Teen. It is, quite simply, a bunch of writing and art we like and believe in.

When I was a teen, I thought I would have to choose between my writing or my music or my art, but it turns out it's a difficult juggling game but I can do all of them.

When we separate music from life we get art.

Kids are naturally gifted at art from a very young age. The problem is when they get older and become self-conscious. The process should always be fun, though.

I think art is not an ornament or refinement at the fringes of human intelligence, I think it's at the center. It's at the core.