Quotes about Creativity
A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.
— Vincent Van Gogh
True art is made noble and religious by the mind producing it.
— Michelangelo
Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.
— Nikki Giovanni
Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.
— Oscar Wilde
What is a woman? I assure you, I do not know ... I do not believe that anybody can know until she has expressed herself in all the arts and professions open to human skill.
— Virginia Woolf
Artists must be sacrificed to their art.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.
— Francois Rabelais
I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance.
— Pablo Picasso
Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.
— Pablo Picasso
As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A painter has only one language.
— Pablo Picasso
The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
— Oscar Wilde
The first choice an artist makes is precisely to be an artist, and if he chooses to be an artist it is in consideration of what he is himself and because of a certain idea he has of art
— Albert Camus