Art Quotes on Creativity & Expression – Page 4 | GloryQuotes

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.

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

Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology.

The cornerstone of the political correctness that dominates campus culture is radical feminism.

Phyllis Schlafly

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

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

Albert Einstein

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Rabindranath Tagore

What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.

Erich Fromm

People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.

In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.

Douglas Sirk

Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts.

Norman Mailer

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

James Cash Penney

It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.

David Hockney

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

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

George Bernard Shaw

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.

Hillary Clinton

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

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

Andre Gide

In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.

Irwin Shaw

Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.

George Henry Lewes

Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.

Gregory Bateson

No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.

James A. Baldwin

Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.

George Henry Lewes

My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer.

James Cameron

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

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.

Ernest Hemingway

The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.

Henri Poincare

I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.

Sydney Pollack

Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.

George Henry Lewes

Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

James Russell Lowell

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

Friedrich Nietzsche

English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men.

Germaine Greer

A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.

Mark Strand

In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.

Edward Hopper

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!

David Herbert Lawrence

America is the sum of all our journeys as we search for our national community and our national culture.

Paul Tsongas

The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.

Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist.

Marshall McLuhan

Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.

Edward Bond

High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.

Diane Wakoski

Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.

Arthur Erickson

Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.