Quotes About Creativity

I didn't see any difference between being a photographer or being an artist. I didn't make those boundaries. If someone wants to think it's art, that's great, but I'll let history decide.

The aim of the historian, like that of the artist, is to enlarge our picture of the world, to give us a new way of looking at things.

LSD...reinforc ed my sense of what was important-creat ing great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.

My world did not shrink because I was a black female writer. It just got bigger.

When you have a large amount of the workforce being laid off, some of them have no other choice but to go out there and invent something.

The history of art is the history of revivals.

I enjoy doing different kinds of things. I just enjoy being not tied too much. I feel that I'm tied to myself as a kind of traditional musician and a singer, and the history that I have ties me down.

History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.

History has repeatedly shown that when a new method or material becomes available, new uses for it arise.

There's a creativity, a power, an energy, an ability to do things unlike any other period in history. It's a little bit like sitting in the Renaissance, but multiplied a thousand-fold.

I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art history. Its the most radical thing.

True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.

Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.

Sweetheart, I'm the biggest ripped-off cartoonist in the history of the world, and that's all I'm going to say.

Sometimes in the history of art it is possible to describe a period or a generation of artists as having been obsessed by a particular problem.

In my world, history comes down to language and art.

It's very true that an artist who networks well will have better opportunities than one who doesn't network well. But great networking skills without great art won't change art history.

Under ordinary circumstances, bad art naturally gets sorted out and disappears. That is how history works when it is left alone to do its job.

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before he is defeated.

Consider me the entity within the industry without a history of spitting the epitome of stupidity.

A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist.

As soon as you set yourself up in the position of transferring paint from one place to another, your whole culture invades you. It tells you all about the history of art.

I feel reinvigorated, having fresh energy and fresh ideas, and merging that with the history I have.

The history of art is a sequence of successful transgressions.