24 Quotes for Writers and Creatives

Happy New Year! No matter what upcoming challenges you’re looking at, here are some great quotes for us as writers and creatives as we enter the year ahead.

Quotes for Writers and Creatives

To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.
Kurt Vonnegut

The chief enemy of creativity is “good” sense.
Pablo Picasso

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use the more you have.
Maya Angelou

Create with the heart; build with the mind.
Criss Jami

The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.
Joan Miró

Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.
Brené Brown

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
Gustave Flaubert

How to unlock creativity: slow down, study another field, get into nature, get out of office, music (lots), sketch, cardio before/after, nibble on small ideas, throw stuff away, atomize the work, look for orthogonal inspiration, breathe, learn about circadian rhythm, paint.
Brian Norgard

Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.
Victor Pinchuk

Great things are not done by impulse, but a series of small things brought together.
Vincent Van Gogh

The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before.
Neil Gaiman

Draw the art you want to see, start the business you want to run, play the music you want to hear, write the books you want to read, build the products you want to use – do the work you want to see done.
Austin Kleon

Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.
Andy Warhol

When I am completely myself, entirely alone during the night when I cannot sleep, it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly.
Mozart

Everything you can imagine is real.
Pablo Picasso

The question isn’t who is going to let me; It’s who is going to stop me.
Ayn Rand

Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.
Georgia O’Keeffe

Creativity takes courage.
Henri Matisse

Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work.
Chuck Close

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
John Steinbeck

Ideas come from everything.
Alfred Hitchcock

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

If you are not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.
Ken Robinson

Creativity doesn’t wait for that perfect moment. It fashions its own perfect moments out of ordinary ones.
Bruce Garrabrandt

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For more uplifting quotes and bits of joy, check out my pinterest board Sunshine In My Soul.

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And feel free to share any of your favorite quotes or positive sayings below! Maybe I can add them in to my next list. 🙂