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Art & Creativity Quotes
The most loved quotes on art & creativity, gathered from writers, thinkers and leaders.
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.
Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.
Art is about imagination. When you look at a picture from Salvador Dali, that's about imagination. When you look at Picasso, that's about imagination. Doing stuff from your heart.
Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
The arts, quite simply, nourish the soul. They sustain, comfort, inspire. There is nothing like that exquisite moment when you first discover the beauty of connecting with others in celebration of larger ideals and shared wisdom.
Art is the triumph over chaos.
Arts education is a big part of building a 21st century creative mind, and I think that we have let way too many kids lose their way by not drawing in their young minds with music, dance, painting and the other various ways we can express those things we do not have words for.
What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
Art is my life and my life is art.
Fashion and music are two great artistic forms that can be molded by the youth culture - our taste and our passion for evolving things in our limited time on earth allows us to look at things with fresh eyes.
Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.
Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.
Proficiency in a craft is essential to every artist. Therein lies the prime source of creative imagination. Let us then create a new guild of craftsmen without the class distinctions that raise an arrogant barrier between craftsman and artist!
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
Art is the proper task of life.
Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.'
Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.
Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.
Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Art is the daughter of freedom.
Creativity takes courage.
The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
Art is the signature of civilizations.
Art is anything people do with distinction.
Art is what defines us, what makes us human.
Art is life's dream interpretation.
Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.
Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe.
Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
Artworks are especially good at helping our psyches in a variety of ways: they rebalance our moods, lend us hope, usher in calm, stretch our sympathies, reignite our senses, and reawaken appreciation.
Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.
Art, it seems to me, doesn't need freedom so much as it needs courage and love - some would call it 'soul' or 'Eros.'
The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.
The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.
Art is not a thing; it is a way.
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.
There is no question that creative intelligence comes not through learning things you find in books or histories that have already been written, but by focusing on and giving value to experience as it happens.
I love art in general - architecture, anything creative.
Art and life are inseparable.
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
Art is anything you can get away with.
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
Art is about changing what we see in our everyday lives and representing it in such a way that it gives us hope.
Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.
Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.
Art challenges technology, but technology inspires the art.
Art is the path to being spiritual.
Creativity is essential to particle physics, cosmology, and to mathematics, and to other fields of science, just as it is to its more widely acknowledged beneficiaries - the arts and humanities.