Quotes about Creativity
Art should never be popular.
— Oscar Wilde
Virtue runs before the muse, and defies her skill; she is rapt and doth refuse to wait a painter's will.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where there's liberty, art succeeds.
— Ronald Reagan
The end of writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.
— Samuel Johnson
I wonder if real art comes when you build the thing that they don't have a prize for yet.
— Seth Godin
We don't need to be taught to make art, but sometimes we need permission to do so. Following instructions is overrated.
— Seth Godin
There's obviously always danger in making music or art for art's sake. Even as Christians we can be guilty of that, being more about the art than the Artist who gave us this gift.
— Steven Curtis Chapman
The Painter who seeks popularity in Art closes the door upon his own genius.
— Washington Allston
The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
— Pablo Picasso
Art is inextricably tied to man's survival - not to his physical survival, but to that on which his physical survival depends: to the preservation and survival of his consciousness.
— Ayn Rand
Good artists exist simply in what they make and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.
— Oscar Wilde
One of the most difficult things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.
— Vincent Van Gogh