Art & Creativity Sayings

A painting is not made to be sniffed.

If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!

You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life.

I was born a bitch. I was born a painter.

I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.

I just do art because I'm ugly and there's nothing else for me to do.

I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all men are created free and equal.

A good speech should be like a woman's skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.

A single spark can start a prairie fire.

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a censor morum over each other.

My beauty is my weapon.

I would rather be remembered for my wisdom than for my beauty.

I write to you from my bed, where I am as usual, very busy.

If you're horrible to me, I'm going to write a song about it, and you won't like it. That's how I operate.

The old society does not perish until it has exhausted all its creative possibilities.

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.

It is not the State that creates wealth, it is the individual.

My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We start bombing in five minutes.

The artist, however faithful to his personal vision of reality, becomes in the end the spokesman of the entire community.

The average man is a conformist, but the creative man is a non-conformist.