Art Quotes on Creativity & Expression – Page 9 | GloryQuotes

I believe people may have a predisposition for artistic creativity. It doesn't mean they're going to make it.

Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.

Walter Pater

One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author.

Anish Kapoor

Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they're going to make mistakes.

Ross Perot

The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.

At the same time, of course, Marxism arose - Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism - and art became political.

Douglas Sirk

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

Harry S. Truman

Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.

Camille Paglia

The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.

Thom Mayne

You know, essentially when you do a play you're reinterpreting a work of art that already exists. That's not what happens with a movie.

Sydney Pollack

When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.

Jim Hodges

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.

Horace Walpole

So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

That is why I believe that art is so much more significant than either economics or philosophy. It is the direct measure of man's spiritual vision.

Herbert Read

Generally, the French highly promote culture and the arts, and photography is in their blood.

Herb Ritts

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

I hope to actually get back to painting someday... soon. I sort of transitioned into cartooning from painting.

Max Cannon

Make an empty space in any corner of your mind, and creativity will instantly fill it.

Dee Hock

I enjoy total creative control right now. Nobody tells me to make it longer, shorter, better, sexier, more violent, whatever.

Ken Burns

When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.

Paul Klee

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.

I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture.

Wole Soyinka

The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art.

Leslie Fiedler

Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.

Larry Wall

In such diffused changes of culture two factors are necessary: contact and understanding.

Hu Shih

Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field.

We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization.

Peter L. Berger

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.

Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.

Eugenio Montale

Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.

Wallace Stevens

A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas.

Paul Valery

Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art for very little.

Sol LeWitt

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Evelyn Waugh

O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!

Barry Cornwall

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

John Keats

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

Michelangelo

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.

Arthur Erickson

One must act in painting as in life, directly.

There are a lot of wonderful things created in our culture that have been ignored that can speak to them.

David Amram

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Gustave Flaubert

I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.

Lukas Foss

American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.

Diane Wakoski

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.

Arthur Erickson

Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture.

Johan Huizinga

More people are exposed to movies than to most other forms of art.

Richard King

Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something.

Ann Patchett

I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.

Bill Griffith