Best Art And Creativity Quotes

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

But, if you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

This is part of the fundamental character of Buddhism that I find problematic – that it is not interested in anything. Hence the ‘Fascination’ in the title of the essay, the fascination of art and creativity, stands in opposition to what is called ‘Liberation’.

Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.

I serve with my art and creativity. That makes me most happy.

Select only things to steal that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent

Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul.

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.

You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

It’s so much of what art and creativity are, being able to confront your own demons. If you can do that, you can get through just about everything.

Creativity – like human life itself – begins in darkness.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Lady Gaga is not a diva, and she’s not crazy. She’s just an incredibly nice, down-to-earth person who really cares about art and creativity. It’s pretty amazing to be able to work with her. I’m pretty grateful for that.

The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

Creativity is discontent translated into arts.

There seems to be art and creativity everywhere, whether it was in the galleries of Jaffa or along the streets of Jerusalem … the creativity blows my mind because you can see that people want to live their lives to the fullest.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.

Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.

If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self.

Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.

Making the simple complicated is commonplace.

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.

It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.