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Quotes about Creativity

Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
— Oscar Wilde
The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature.
— CS Lewis
You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.
— Milan Kundera
The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Have you not seen that in our days Of any whose story, song or art Delights us, our sincerest praise Means, when all's said, 'You break my heart?
— CS Lewis
When your art fails, make better art.
— Seth Godin
Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art.
— Charles Dickens
I don't pretend to know anything about art. I make pictures for entertainment, and then the professors tell me what they mean.
— Walt Disney
Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling.
— George Bernard Shaw
The arts are not a luxury. They are an integral part of our lives as individuals and as a nation.
— Hillary Clinton
I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty...an America which will reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in business or statecraft.
— John F. Kennedy