Art Quotes on Creativity & Expression – Page 5 | GloryQuotes

In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.

Johan Huizinga

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.

John F. Kennedy

The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.

Jackson Pollock

Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you.

Martha Beck

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

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

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.

Oliver Goldsmith

The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process.

Arthur Erickson

I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.

Jackson Pollock

I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.

It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

W. Somerset Maugham

There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.

We are somehow natured, not just to reproduce, but for sociality and even for culture.

Leon Kass

The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.

Naguib Mahfouz

Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Lester Bangs

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

Anthony Trollope

Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes.

Len Wein

Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.

I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.

David Rockefeller

It's because we are so flooded with American culture that we're startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen.

Yahoo Serious

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.

Sydney J. Harris

I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public.

James Broughton

I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.

Jeanette Winterson

Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

Marshall McLuhan

For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.

The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.

Gustave Flaubert

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

Salvador Dali

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

Mohandas Gandhi

My theory about creativity is that the more money one has, the more creative one can be.

Robert Mapplethorpe

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.

Honore de Balzac

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

Paul Getty

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.

Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.

Bill Griffith

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

George Santayana

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.

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

George Jean Nathan

Painting does what we cannot do - it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.

Chuck Jones

So we have to be careful because if you don't protect your culture you won't have it for very long.

Yahoo Serious

This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

Tom Wolfe

Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up.

Herb Ritts

The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Norman Mailer

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture.

David Amram