Quotes about Creativity
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
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