#creativity

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#creativity #life #love #monotony #passion

life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one ↗

— Stella Adler

#art #creativity #art

The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable. ↗

— Robert Henri

#creativity #art

The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little. ↗

— Banksy

#creativity #graffiti #humor #art

Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music. ↗

— Herbie Hancock

#beyond #creativity #endeavors #far #goes

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#creativity #imagination #art

I do not know anything about Art with a capital A. What I do know about is my art. Because it concerns me. I do not speak for others. So I do not speak for things which profess to speak for others. My art, however, speaks for me. It lights my way. ↗

— Mark Z. Danielewski

#artist #creativity #art

Genius, throughout history, has been found difficult to classify because it varies in amount: It's rare to find a genius in the context of the noun, but most people, if not all, have a bit of genius in them in the context of the adjective. ↗

— Criss Jami

#amount #classification #classify #context #creativity

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected. ↗

— William Plomer

#connect #creativity #seemingly #unconnected

Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and poets are often considered to be the characters in their works. I like Michelangelo's vision, 'I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. ↗

— Criss Jami

#art #artist #author #autobiography #character