Quotes on creativity and art can provide a glimpse into new outlooks on life and writing and can inspire our own thoughts and work.
From everyday moments to the mysteries of the galaxy, art is part of it all!
So enjoy these quotes, be inspired, and go make something!
Whatever your writing and life journey looks like today, happy creating and best of luck to you 🙂
Creative Quotes
“Everyone who’s ever taken a shower has had an idea. It’s the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it who makes a difference.”
Nolan Bushnell
“If you get stuck, get away from your desk. Take a walk, take a bath, go to sleep, make a pie, draw, listen to music, meditate, exercise; whatever you do, don’t just stick there scowling at the problem. But don’t make telephone calls or go to a party; if you do, other people’s words will pour in where your lost words should be. Open a gap for them, create a space. Be patient.”
Hilary Mantel
“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
“The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Creativity is an act of defiance.”
Twyla Tharp
“The chief enemy of creativity is “good” sense.”
Pablo Picasso
“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”
Scott Adams
“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.”
Erich Fromm
“The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing. ”
Ernest Hemingway
“To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.”
Kurt Vonnegut
“Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.”
Brenda Ueland
“To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.”
Akira Kurosawa
“Create with the heart; build with the mind.”
Criss Jami
“Creativity doesn’t wait for that perfect moment. It fashions its own perfect moments out of ordinary ones.”
Bruce Garrabrandt
“Chance favors the prepared mind.”
Louis Pasteur
“That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.”
Ray Bradbury
“Creativity is… seeing something that doesn’t exist already. You need to find out how you can bring it into being and that way be a playmate with God.”
Michele Shea
“I think that you’ve got to make something that pleases you and hope that other people feel the same way.”
Thomas Keller
“Let your creative and imaginative mind run freely; it will take you places you never dreamed of and provide breakthroughs that others once thought were impossible.”
Idowu Koyenikan
“The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul.”
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
