Art and Creativity Quotes

"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."

"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art."

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

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

"Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul."

"When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created."

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

"Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is."

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

"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."

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

"Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life."

"True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn'd to dance."

"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."

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

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

"Art is never finished, only abandoned."

"Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication."

"I think you get most of the most interesting work done in fields where people don't think they're doing art but are merely practicing a craft and working as good craftsmen. Being literate as a writer is good craft, is knowing your job, is knowing how to use your tools properly and not to damage the tools as you use them."

"In art the best is good enough."

"Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others."

"To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction."

"I paint; I draw and paint - I've been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistically and then changing to abstract art. That was my first creative thing before guitar or comedy."

"A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art."

"Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible."

"The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide."

"Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on."

"Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call."

"The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance."

"We have art in order not to die of the truth."

"Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs."

"Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises."

"Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know."

"You don't take a photograph, you make it."

"The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art."

"The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art."

"It's very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems."

"We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art."

"'Crazy' is a term of art; 'Insane' is a term of law. Remember that, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble."

"I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing."

"There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within."

"Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence."

"I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being."

"The art of living well and the art of dying well are one."

"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."

"Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse."

"An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it."

"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."

"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."

"Pictures must not be too picturesque."