Art and Creativity Quotes

"Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death."

"Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art."

"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."

"Life is not an exact science, it is an art."

"Art is not a pastime but a priesthood."

"Rules and models destroy genius and art."

"There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality."

"The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure."

"The art is long, life is short."

"I really do believe that art changes the landscape of the world."

"In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another."

"Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth."

"Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art."

"Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate."

"In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine."

"Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them."

"Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor."

"Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it."

"Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative."

"All art is quite useless."

"Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries."

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."

"For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication."

"The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain."

"We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question."

"The art of war is of vital importance to the state. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected."

"I like art. It's another way to rebel."

"Art is the daughter of freedom."

"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls."

"Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse."

"Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees."

"All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous."

"Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together."

"You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war."

"Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed."

"There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause."

"Art is anything you can get away with."

"In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity. Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse."

"Growing up going to Christian school and the concept that you're born a sinner and you don't really have a choice to change who you are has been hammered into my head and created the entire reason why I made art and made a band and made records called 'Antichrist Superstar.'"

"So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die."

"I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd."

"The task of art today is to bring chaos into order."

"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary."

"Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun."

"Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable."

"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web."

"If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it."

"Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth."

"Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers."

"So vast is art, so narrow human wit."