Top 1200 Art And Creativity Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Creativity has two possibilities. One is that it arises out of your silence, love, understanding, your clarity of vision, your intimate friendliness with existence - then creativity is healthy. But if it does not arise out of meditation, out of silence and peace and understanding and love, then there is a danger. It may be arising out of your confused mind. It may be arising out of your insanity.

Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is black charcoal crushing white paper.

Whatever else art is good for, its chief effectiveness lies in propagating more art.

Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away.

Art in the age of the digital image is completely different from experiencing art in physical form.

Some teams hold a little more than others. It's an art, but it's not an art I appreciate.

I think for me, any great art is art which communicates human emotion.

Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make.

Art when inspired with love leads to higher realms, and that art will open for you the inner life.

The greatest art in life is to believe in Christ. That art is learned only in the Holy Spirit's school.

Before the Conquest all art was of the people, and popular art has never ceased to exist in Mexico. The art called popular is fugitive in character, with less of the impersonal and intellectual characteristics of the schools. It is the work of talent nourished by personal experience and that of the community - rather than being taken from the experiences of painters in other times and other cultures.

My goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to become Picasso or greater.

A friend of mine helped me find my confidence by trusting the knowledge that I was not alone in writing my first book. She helped me wake up to the fact that I had a source of creativity that was my true creative nature and when I embraced it and asked for this presence in my life, I felt as if the dam of the Niagra Falls had burst and all sorts of wonderful things started to happen when I found my voice. It has been a process ever since and I am now a big advocate in the message that we are not alone and we all have ample creativity within us if we just trust it.

Art is the free expression of the artist and they tried to stop us from expressing ourselves, our art.

One learns the art of dying by learning the art of living: how to become master of the present moment.

All art (after Duchamp) is conceptual (in nature) because art only exists conceptually.

Art is not and never has been subordinate to moral values. Moral values are social values; aesthetic values are human values. Morality seeks to restrain the feelings; art seeks to define them by externalizing them, by giving them significant form. Morality has only one aim - the ideal good; art has quite another aim - the objective truth... art never changes.

If you worry about how good the art is, you're never going to make your own art.

I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

Polling is an art as well as a science, and the art of crafting good questions is still vital.

I love art, painting, and drawing and studying art, like Rembrandt and Van Gogh.

Art is art. Television has elevated itself, in certain ways, but it's always pushed people's consciousness.

I really believe in not compromising your art. I feel like I've never compromised my art.

Part of the strength of Pollock and Rothko's art, in fact, is this doubt as to whether art may be there at all.

The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you.

Sometimes we look at a work of art and we immediately think that it is German art, but with some we don't, it's not so obvious.

My art is applied to another art which is cinema, that makes my life much easier.

The art of publicity is a black art; but it has come to stay, and every year adds to its potency.

Strictly speaking, there are no holidays for art; art pursues you everywhere, and that's just fine with the artist.

The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "overcome" doubt.

Good art doesn't really have an expiration date on it. That's something to be happy about, if you're making art.

It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.

The public needs art, and it is the responsibility of a ’self-proclaimed artist’ to realize the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art for the few and ignore the masses. … I am interested in making art to be experienced and explored by as many individuals as possible with as many different individual ideas about the given piece with no final meaning attached. The viewer creates the reality, the meaning, the conception of the piece. I am merely a middleman trying to bring ideas together.

I felt film is art and there are people that constructed that art - and that made me want to be a filmmaker.

Nothing more inelegant and ineffective than an art conceived in another art's form.

If Graffiti is art and art is a crime then how come piccaso never done time?

Art is consumed in so many different ways. You could say people don't stop to appreciate art. On the other hand, people can consume art more quickly. Twitter, videos posted online - how do you utilize that? How do you identify yourself as an individual when you're sitting at this massive dinner table of the world with everyone on, from Kansas to Dubai?

The art of healing, the art of ecstasy, the art of God-consciousness has millions of names in mystic terms. It has to do with rhythm and reality. When the body is in rhythm, there is ease. When the body, or any part of the body goes out of rhythm, there is dis-ease.

I think there's something beautiful about the art of making art, and it just will live and breathe.

Concrete, Steel & Paint portrays the core values of restorative justice-respect, responsibility and relationships-expressed through art. it is art that involves victims, offenders and communities in a dialogue that is sometimes difficult and painful, sometimes reconciling, but always engaging. As one prisoner says in the film, 'We have come together collectively through art.' It will be a great discussion tool for college classes, community groups and others interested in issues of justice, community-building, conflict resolution and socially-engaged art.

Art is a kind of artificial memory and the pain which attends all serious art is a sense of that factitiousness.

If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much use for it.

Romantic art is always stylized: the better the art, the cleaner and more attractive and intelligent the stylization.

Art is action. The way I live my life to its highest degree is by writing, the practice of art.

You can't really have art without having a sense of community as art is for others to enjoy as well.

This industry [photography], by invading the territories of art, has become art's most mortal enemy.

When you're so drawn to art, to making pictures and looking at art, it's really all you want to think about.

To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art does not live in the present, it must not be considered at all.

To me, this is the most awesome kind of art. When the music is right, everybody is as much a part of the art.

Music is an art form too. Sometimes other forms of art can be inspiring to the musician.

Art isn't just paint and music, art is breaking glass and the sounds we make without realizing.

The art and architecture of the past that we know is that which remains. The best is that which remains where it was painted, placed or built. Most of the art of the past that could be moved was taken by conquerors. Almost all recent art is conquered as soon as it's made, since it's first shown for sale and once sold is exhibited as foreign in the alien museums. The public has no idea of art other than that it is something portable that can be bought. There is no constructive effort; there is no cooperative effort. This situation is primitive in relation to a few earlier and better times.

I consider chess an art, and accept all those responsibilities which art places upon its devotees.

To make people free is the aim of art, therefore art for me is the science of freedom.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: writing picture books is an art - the art of word choice.

Great art always transcends its culture, while lesser art merely reflects it.

There can be no good art that is international. Art to be vigorous and gesund must use the material at hand.

I love making art... It's largely how I see myself. I'm an artist; therefore I have to make art.

To translate poetry, one has to possess some art, at the very least the art of stylistic re-embodiment.

Whether something is called art is beside the point. What counts is what happens when you ask it to actually be art.