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Quotes About Creativity

Beauty without expression tires.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.
~ Oscar Wilde
I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
~ Georgia O'Keeffe
Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.
~ Edgar Degas
The world will be saved by beauty.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Every true artist has been inspired more by the beauty of lines and color and the relationships between them than by the concrete subject of the picture.
~ Piet Mondrian
I don't think photography has anything remotely to do with the brain. It has to do with eye appeal.
~ Horst P. Horst
I just get inspired to take a picture by the beauty and vulnerability of my friends.
~ Nan Goldin
There is a deep human need for beauty and if you ignore that need in architecture your buildings will not last
~ Roger Scruton
Without error there can be no brilliancy
~ Emanuel Lasker
If we cannot write with the beauty of Mozart, let us at least try to write with his purity.
~ Johannes Brahms
I have always striven to fix beauty in wood, stone, glass or pottery, in oil or watercolor by using whatever seemed fittest for the expression of beauty, that has been my creed.
~ Louis Comfort Tiffany
There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
My wife Ricky is my muse. Her personal style and natural beauty have always been my inspiration.
~ Ralph Lauren
To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
~ Dorothea Lange
Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.
~ Sigmund Freud
It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun.
~ Ray Kroc
The beauty of women was the first expression of my photography.
~ Alberto Korda
Beauty and seriousness are perhaps the most shocking tactics left to artists these days.
~ Grayson Perry
That's the beauty of song writing. You never know when inspiration will come or how it will hit, you just gotta kinda grasp a hold of it and make sense of it somehow.
~ Kimbra
Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.
~ Herbert Gold
Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.
~ Helen Gurley Brown
It's incredible to see the creativity, beauty and hardships people capture when filmmaking is opened up and shared with the world.
~ Jehane Noujaim
I always loved aesthetics. Not particularly fashion, but an idea of beauty.
~ Miuccia Prada