Art Quotes on Creativity & Expression – Page 7 | GloryQuotes

America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global culture.

Jean-Jacques Annaud

The dichotomy between art and industry is totally dysfunctional in terms of film.

Ann Macbeth

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

Paul Gauguin

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

Edward Hopper

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

Henry James

Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.

Willa Cather

There is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life.

Richard Foreman

If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.

The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.

Adolf Loos

What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself.

Anita Brookner

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.

Saint Augustine

It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.

George Henry Lewes

In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts.

Stephen Gardiner

There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola.

Leslie Fiedler

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

Albert Einstein

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

Charles Darwin

Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they're all valid.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.

Josef Albers

Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.

E. L. Doctorow

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephantand the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.

The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.

Adolf Loos

If you go back to the Greeks and Romans, they talk about all three - wine, food, and art - as a way of enhancing life.

Robert Mondavi

Salesmanship, too, is an art; the perfection of its technique requires study and practice.

James Cash Penney

A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.

Robert Smithson

We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity.

Arthur Erickson

Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.

Morley Safer

My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.

Yahoo Serious

The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.

David Herbert Lawrence

It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism.

Chaim Potok

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

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.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

We are the meeting place, an entity that's trying to connect faith and culture.

William P. Leahy

Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.

Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.

Cyril Connolly

Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

Margaret Fuller

Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus.

Sol LeWitt

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

Laurence J. Peter

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Max Lerner

Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

Charles Baudelaire

A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid.

Lawrence Lessig