21 Quotes on Art and Creativity

Why 21 Quotes? There are 21 quotes, for 21 days, the number of days it takes to create or break a habit. Do you want to motivate yourself to write, create or get healthy and loose weight? Do you want more peace, love, happiness, creativity, justice, or courage in our lives and world, we must first THINK about these things; because inevitably, we become what we think and our world is a reflection of us.

Art and Creativity Quote 1
Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. Arthur Koestler

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Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. Erich Fromm

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Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. Martin Luther King Jr.

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Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self. Erich Fromm

Art and Creativity Quote 5
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. Henry Ward Beecher

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Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. Scott Adams

Art and Creativity Quote 7
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. William Faulkner

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Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. Stella Adler

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It has been said that art is a tryst, for in the joy of it maker and beholder meet. Kojiro Tomita

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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in. Amy Lowell

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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies. Pablo Picasso

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An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one. Charles Horton Cooley

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Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. Theodore Dreiser

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The artist’s world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep. Paul Strand

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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. André Gide

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Anyone who says you can’t see a thought simply doesn’t know art. Wynetka Ann Reynolds

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When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college – that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared at me, incredulous, and said, “You mean they forget?” Howard Ikemoto

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The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life. Henry Miller

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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. Oscar Wilde

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All art requires courage. Anne Tucker

Art and Creativity Quote 21
Let me ask you something, what is not art? Author Unknown