Art and Creativity Quotes

"I love fashion. I love couture. I'm going to erect a shelf in my bedroom with an art light to be the spot for the shoes of the month. I want them to serve another purpose."

"Life is short, the art long."

"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist."

"Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art."

"The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor."

"All art is but imitation of nature."

"If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?"

"O, Thou precious Lord Jesus Christ, we do adore Thee with all our hearts. Thou art Lord of all."

"Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."

"The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one."

"The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery."

"Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits."

"I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind."

"The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable."

"Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic."

"There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept."

"A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession."

"Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth."

"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."

"Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better."

"I think all art - even one as lowly as making jokes about celebrities - is there to make a connection."

"All over the world, young males and females, schooled in the art of patriarchal thinking, are building an identity on a foundation that sees the will to do violence as the essential way to assert being."

"This world is but a canvas to our imagination."

"All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavour, so even when you're using charcoal on a wall or designed the proscenium arch, that's technology."

"Art is what you can get away with."

"Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century."

"The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history."

"Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do."

"Every artist writes his own autobiography."

"Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still."

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science."

"When I taught art, I was always asked, 'How do you know you're an artist? What makes you an artist?' And to me, it's like breathing. You don't question if you breathe; you have to breathe. So if you wake up in the morning, and you have to realize an idea, and there's another idea, and another, maybe you are really an artist."

"Facts can be turned into art if one is artful enough."

"Sometimes words are not needed, and the simplicity of expressing yourself through an art form is one of the best ways of communication."

"The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success."

"Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine."

"The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence."

"O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars."

"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

"In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport."

"Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification."

"Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me."

"To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine."

"Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art."

"An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have."

"It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection."

"Nature is the art of God."

"A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind."

"A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas."

"I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages."