Creativity Quotes

"Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible."

- Paul Klee

"Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art."

- Andy Warhol

"The purpose of truly transcendent art is to express something you are not yet, but that you can become."

- Ken Wilber

"All great transcendental art is not merely symbolic or imaginary: it is a direct invitation to recognize and realize a deeper dimension of our very own being."

- Ken Wilber

"All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril."

- Oscar Wilde

"The purpose of art is to make the invisible visible."

- Paul Klee

"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."

- Thomas Merton

"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth."

- Pablo Picasso

"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web."

- Pablo Picasso

"Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable."

- Cesar Cruz

"Every artist was first an amateur."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Art is the highest form of hope."

- Gerhard Richter

"The painter has the universe in his mind and hands."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"Art is the language of the soul."

- Claudia Moscovici

"Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist."

- Edward Hopper

"Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable."

- George Bernard Shaw

"The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced."

- Leo Tolstoy

"Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do."

- Edgar Degas

"The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before."

- Neil Gaiman

"Art is the journey of a free soul."

- Alev Oguz

"Art is not a pastime but a priesthood."

- Jean Cocteau

"Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish."

- Aristotle

"We have art in order not to die of life."

- Albert Camus

"Life is pain, art is redemption."

- Brian Lee Jones

"Art is an effort to make you walk a half an inch above ground."

- Yoko Ono

"Art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind."

- Louise Nevelson

"No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination."

- Edward Hopper

"Art is often born from inner struggle. Artists are often plagued by impulses they must express. Contentment does not seek action but struggle always seeks release."

- Eric Gibbons

"The primary benefit of practising any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one’s soul to grow."

- Kurt Vonnegut