21 Creativity Quotes


I love reading quotes about art and creativity! They always makes me want to be more brave. They encourage me to keep trying. And they help me know I am not alone.

May we be brave and keep trying today! For we are not alone <3

21 Creativity Quotes

Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.
Criss Jami

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.
Leo Burnett

I feel there is nothing more artistic than loving people.
Vincent Van Gogh

Everything is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything is usable. Everything feeds into my creativity. But without proper preparation, I cannot see it, retain it, and use it.
Twyla Tharp

Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.
Marina Abramovic

Your own reasons to make are reason enough. Create whatever causes a revolution in your heart.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Genius is only a great aptitude for patience.
George-Louis Leclerc

It’s only after you’re bored that you’re gonna have the great ideas.
Naval Ravikant

Not everybody will get it. People will misinterpret you and what you do. They might even call you names. So get comfortable with being misunderstood, disparaged, or ignored — the trick is to be too busy doing your work to care.
Austin Kleon

One sure-fire way to stay creative: force yourself to learn something new.
Harvey Mackay

Creative thinking is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practiced and nurtured.
Edward de Bono

If you ever find that you’re the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.
Austin Kleon

It is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition.
Larry Page

Have a healthy disregard for the impossible and actually build new solutions.
Larry Page

The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.
David Ogilvy

Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.
Rollo May

Life is short, art is long.
Hippocrates

Art is communication of feelings.
Bruce Lee

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Thomas Edison

Pretend to be making something until you actually make something.
Austin Kleon

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.
John Updike


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