Quotes About Creativity

In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.

Play is the highest form of research.

We say arts education is good for general education, but that's not the point. The arts are what great nations are remembered for. They are a mirror.

I wouldn't be where I am today without the amazing public arts education that I had.

She missed -- without knowing what she missed-- paints and crayons

Paradise of Lailah Gifty Akita is reading, wondering and writing.

I love social media. I love the connectivity it provides, the creativity it allows, and the breathtaking wealth of information we all have at our fingertips because of it.

There have been studies that clearly state that children who are exposed to arts education at a young age will in fact do markedly better in their SAT tests.

Design must seduce, shape, and perhaps more importantly, evoke an emotional response.

Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You're painting pictures of emotions.

I think in terms of emotions. And feelings. So sometimes what I say may not always be clear. But creatively, there's a lot to be said for that way of thinking.

Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.

The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.

If you are an expressive player, people can feel that. It is an emotional thing and becomes an extension of yourself.

Great art is always a balancing act. But all art has both - an emotional content and an intellectual content.

If you're feeling emotional when you're creating something, it'll sound that way.

It's emotional blackmail to say if you're a good businesswoman and a musician, you're betraying your music.

There's usually a rhythm and a melody in my head, and that creates an emotional state

I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.

Take nothing for granted. Make an emotional discovery as often as you can find one in every scene. Ask yourself: What is new?

Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional.

What I want is that my picture should evoke nothing but emotion.

I've never made any picture, good or bad, without paying for it in emotional turmoil.

Photographing is an emotional thing, a graceful thing. Photography allows me to wander with a purpose.