Quotes on Art And Creativity

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

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

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

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

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 type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

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

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.

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

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.