Quotes About Creativity

Of all the arts, music is really the most abstract.

I think the arts are absolutely necessary for children to be creative and express themselves because every child is different.

Slavery discourages arts and manufactures.

One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form.

Children's finger-painting came under the arts, but movies didn't.

I love the arts.

I knew I was artistic, and I wanted to do something in the arts.

I wanted all my life to give my world into other arts - books, plays, movies - but I didn't want to sell out.

I'm a Baha'i; we really believe in Baha'i faith that our work has to be our service, especially in the arts.

Every person, every artist makes his life an artwork.

For artists, we're always looking for approval. We're putting our artwork out there and saying, 'What do you think?'

I love working with rotoscopic animation because under the incredible handpainted artwork are real actors and real human performances.

I draw my own stuff. I do my own cover artwork.

The world has accelerated to the point that, as far as the album as a form, I don't know if it's going to last that much longer.

I just want to make music that people hear, and I'm not ashamed of that.

I've never made a record that I'm ashamed of.

If we found an ashtray in the studio, we'd try to play it and find a part for it in a song.

For the last thirty years, however, these pictures of ancient times are beginning to fade and disappear. Modern industry, working for the masses, goes on destroying the creations of ancient art, the works of which were once as personal to the consumer as to the artisan. Nowadays we have products, we no longer have works.

The hat, above all, struck me; it is a sort of truncated column, and does not adapt itself in the least to the shape of the head; but I am told it is easier to bring about a revolution than to invent a graceful hat.

More ideas surged through her head in one quarter of an hour than she had ever had since she came into the world. "Mamma," she said, "my cousin will never bear the smell of a tallow candle; suppose we buy a wax one?" And she darted, swift as a bird, to get the five-franc piece which she had just received for her monthly expenses. "Here, Nanon," she cried, "quick!

The purpose of art is not to copy nature, but to express it. It's not about making good or bad copies, it's about poetry!

Otherwise a sculptor could save himself the trouble and take a cast of a woman! And yet, try making a cast of your mistress's hand and

Tout écrivain porte en son coeur un monstre qui, semblable au taenia dans l'estomac, y dévore les sentiments à mesure qu'ils y éclosent. Qui triomphera ? la maladie de l'homme, ou l'homme de la maladie ? Certes, il faut être un grand homme pour tenir la balance entre son génie et son caractère. Le talent grandit, le coeur se dessèche. A moins d'être un colosse, à moins d'avoir des épaules d'Hercule, on reste ou sans coeur ou sans talent. Vous

Los hombres de genio no tenían hermanos ni hermanas, ni padres ni madres; las grandes obras que habrían de crear les imponían un egoísmo aparente al obligarles a sacrificarlo todo a su grandeza.