Art Quotes on Creativity & Expression – Page 10 | GloryQuotes

Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Marshall McLuhan

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Friedrich Nietzsche

That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.

Anish Kapoor

Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.

There is a garbage culture out there, where we pour garbage on people. Then the pollsters run around and take a poll and say, do you smell anything?

Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.

The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization.

Stephen Gardiner

The conventional notions of art have changed, and a lot of things done today are considered works of art that would have been rejected in the past.

David Rockefeller

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

Andre Gide

We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.

Kary Mullis

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

Paul Valery

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

William Faulkner

There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.

Charles Dickens

Creativity is a highfalutin word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday.

Ray Kroc

The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets.

Alvin Toffler

Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer.

Anish Kapoor

Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.

Christopher Lasch

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

R. Buckminster Fuller

I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.

William Morris

Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.

Charles Baudelaire

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

Michelangelo

The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.

Ralph Ellison

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Andre Gide

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.

Rebecca West

The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.

David Herbert Lawrence

A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample.

Rebecca West

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

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

I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try.

Steven Spielberg

Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.

Ralph Bakshi

Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.

Oriana Fallaci

The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.

Lionel Trilling

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

Henry Ellis

I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work.

Anish Kapoor

In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.

Edward Hopper

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

Henry David Thoreau

All artists get better with age. The more you draw, the better you're going to get.

John Kricfalusi

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

Vincent Van Gogh

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

Leo Tolstoy

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

E. O. Wilson

Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Charles Baudelaire

Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.

Andre Maurois

You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.

Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.

Eugenio Montale

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.

David Rockefeller