Art and Creativity Quotes

"In art as in love, instinct is enough."

"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting."

"Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning."

"Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us."

"Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art."

"He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars."

"Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over."

"A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education."

"Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men."

"Diplomacy: the art of restraining power."

"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."

"More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible."

"No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger."

"I like to learn. That's an art and a science."

"Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'"

"Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life."

"My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art."

"All art really does is keep you focused on questions of humanity, and it really is about how do we get on with our maker."

"My focus is my art, and that's what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I've turned down many things that I just didn't believe in."

"Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, illuminate your little patch of ground, the people that you know, the things that you want to commemorate. Light them up with your art, with your music, with your writing, with whatever it is that you do."

"Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting."

"We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand."

"Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed."

"Art is spiritual."

"Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses."

"The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things."

"Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world."

"Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art."

"I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art."

"Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted."

"Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature."

"Errors are not in the art but in the artificers."

"Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room."

"A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author."

"One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train."

"Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art."

"Art is the elimination of the unnecessary."

"Art Nouveau got its inspiration from nature. The Bauhaus got its inspiration from engineering."

"The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art."

"A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears."

"A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not."

"I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good."

"I always saw candy as art."

"I think it's the pain and suffering that drive you to become an artist. The art itself should be the pain, sort of exorcising every demon and making you feel like you're a person that matters."

"It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned."

"Overtaking is one thing. That is an art. But defending as well. You should be able to defend your position."

"There is nothing new in art except talent."

"Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century."

"The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity."

"Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass."