Quotes about Creativity
There is a great amity between designing and art.
— Joseph Addison
People should practice an art in order to make their souls grow and not to make money or become famous. Paint a picture. Write.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I can't think of one great human being in the arts, or in history generally, who conformed, who succeeded, as education experts tell us children must succeed, with his peer group.
— Madeleine L'Engle
If it's bad art, it's bad religion, no matter how pious the subject.
— Madeleine L'Engle
All forms of art are consciousness expanders, and I am convinced that they will take us further, and more consciously, than drugs.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective.
— Mahatma Gandhi
All true art must help the soul to realize its inner self.
— Mahatma Gandhi
There's nothing like drawing a thing to make you really see it.
— Margaret Atwood
The only really effective apologia for Christianity comes down to two arguments, namely, the saints the Church has produced, and the art which has grown in her womb.
— Pope Benedict XVI
It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.
— Oscar Wilde
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