Art and Creativity Quotes

"Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself."

"Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper."

"If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him."

"It is hard to separate the art from the artist."

"The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination."

"To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way."

"What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time."

"A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires."

"A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas."

"A picture is a poem without words."

"A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left."

"Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need."

"An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way."

"Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame."

"Art depends on luck and talent."

"Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed."

"Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious."

"Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time."

"Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise."

"Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known."

"Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere."

"Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?"

"Art's everything we hope life would be, a lot of times."

"Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day."

"Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad."

"Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression."

"Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art."

"For me, there is very little difference between magic and art. To me, the ultimate act of magic is to create something from nothing: It's like when the stage magician pulls the rabbit from the hat."

"History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created."

"I cry out for order and find it only in art."

"I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things."

"I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature."

"I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences."

"I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good."

"If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye."

"Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul."

"In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good."

"It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself."

"It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it."

"Land really is the best art."

"Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected."

"Music has the power to bring people together like no other art form."

"Of all lies, art is the least untrue."

"Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it."

"Personality is everything in art and poetry."

"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."

"Politics is the art of controlling your environment."