Creative Work Quotes

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

Speed is not always a constituent to great work, the process of creation should be given time and thought.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

She preferred the quiet solitary atmosphere, to create in her own world of paint and colour, the thrill of anticipating how her works would turn out as she eyed the blank sheets of paper or canvas before starting her next masterpiece. How satisfying it was to mess around in paint gear, without having to worry about spills, starch or frills, that was the life!

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

Create. Not for the money. Not for the fame. Not for the recognition. But for the pure joy of creating something and sharing it.

~ Ernest Barbaric

The point of dreams was never to be the affordable option, it was the one everyone else saw as a mistake and every creative person saw as an opportunity.

~ Anastasia Bolinder

Attempt always to uncover the beauty in everyday surroundings. If you cannot find it, then be the one to create it.

~ Stefan Cupka

Fame is not the same as success, and in our true souls we know that.

~ Julia Cameron

A person does not reach the pinnacle of self-realization without relentlessly exploring the parameters of the self, exhausting their psychic energy coming to know oneself. Without society to rebel against and to sail away from, there would be no advances in civilization; there would be no need for healers and mystics, priests and artist, or shaman and writers. It is our curiosity and refusal to be satisfied with the status quo that compels us to challenge ourselves to learn and continue to grow. We only establish inner peace of mind with acceptance of the world, with the recognition of our connection to the entirety of the universe, and understanding that chaos and change are inevitable. We must also love because without love there are no acts of creation. Without love, humankind is a spasmodic pool of brutality and suffering. Love is a balm. It cures human aches and pains; it unites couples, families, and cultures. Love is a creative force, without love there is no art or religion. Art expresses thought and feelings, an articulation of adore and reverence.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

An artistic person taps into the destructive emotional energy of guilt and shame and the longing to love and be loveable and transforms these powerful emotions into a creative force.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

In my opinion, works of art should be viewed as gifts; something precious given from a point of empathy, where personal enrichment is vastly superior to the value of the gift, and the giver begs for nothing but for the gift to shine on its own.

~ Kevin Focke

I pray Father that the work of my hands would be a blessing to all who I come into contact with.

~ Jennifer Allwood

Lord, I pray that you will let my talent bring JOY and BEAUTY to a world that sometimes is dark and discouraging.

~ Jennifer Allwood

The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own.

~ Betty Friedan

The artistic methods of poetry, painting, photography, and writing share certain commonalities of deep composition: spirit, rhythm, thought, and scenery.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Our personal story has many chapters that reconnoiter universal themes. We each struggle to understand ourselves and aspire to make ourselves known to the world. We struggle to win the love of other people. We seek to pick all the low hanging fruit that we come across in our journey through the corridor of time. We write our story in the Niagara of emotional experiences that flowing watercourse makes us human. We use a profusion of words, symbols, and the nuances pulled from a rich library of language to depict the cascade of our visions, sounds, smells, tastes, feelings, dreams, and infelicitous thoughts. We use logical and dialectal thought processes when communing with our inner self. We use self-speak along with the esemplastic powers of poetic imagination, sprinkled with the fizz of creativity, to cohere disparate chapters of our life into a unified whole and relay the effervescence of our story to other people.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

A creative person aspires to devote the core state of their mind fixated upon performing the surge of work that expresses the raw passion driving an evolving notion of their quintessence.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Theater is the crucible where we can create the dynamics of life without suffering the flames of their combustion.

~ Tom Althouse

Consuming the content and culture of creatives does not make one a creative. Creating makes a creative.

~ Ryan Lilly

The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tempo of a new era in brilliant labor.

~ Aberjhani

You can’t let fear and indecision sink your creativity—they do not easily release their hold.

~ Richie Norton

You know how creative people are, we have to try everything until we find our niche.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

Being creative is a beautiful thing. Being creative for other people is work. No one wants to work at being creative.

~ A. Dalcourt

Creative writing is your ability to develop your inner tension, your libido, your supply of energy and electric charge, turning the charge into an image or thought, and wording the thought, thus contributing all the activity of your mind to the immortal culture of humankind and subsequently to your own immortality.

~ Lara Biyuts

Art is a journey of excellence not a goal of perfection.

~ Jacqueline Patricks

Fame is a spiritual drug. It is often a by-product of our artistic work, but like nuclear waste, it can be a very dangerous by-product.

~ Julia Cameron