Quotes about Creativity
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
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