Creativity Quotes

The only principle which will make you more content, less bitter is to live a life that has Less excuses, more results. Less distraction, more focus. Less me, more we. Live with Gratitude not with Greytitude

~ Abhysheq Shukla

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

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.

~ Pablo Picasso

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.

~ Martha Graham

The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.

~ Mikhail Bakunin

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

I force myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

~ Marcel Duchamp

Everyone has their own ways of expression. I believe we all have a lot to say, but finding ways to say it is more than half the battle.

~ Criss Jami

It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

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

Creativity is an act of defiance.

~ Twyla Tharp

The criminal is the creative artist, the detective only the critic.

~ G.k. Chesterton

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.

~ Pablo Picasso

If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into conformity with their comfortable little standards. Standards so low that they can no longer be considered dangerous but set in place in their compartmental understandings.

~ Jack Kerouac

Remember: It costs nothing to encourage an artist, and the potential benefits are staggering. A pat on the back to an artist now could one day result in your favorite film, or the cartoon you love to get stoned watching, or the song that saves your life. Discourage an artist, you get absolutely nothing in return, ever.

~ Kevin Smith

Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

Whoever uses the spirit that isin him creatively is an artist. Tomake living itself an art, that isthe goal.

~ Henry Miller

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

~ Robert Henri

The artist, and particularly the poet, is always an anarchist in the best sense of the word. He must heed only the call that arises within him from three strong voices: the voice of death, with all its foreboding, the voice of love and the voice of art.

~ Federico García Lorca

Artists are those who can evade the verbose.

~ Haruki Murakami

The creative act is not performed by the artist alone, the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.

~ Marcel Duchamp

Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

I’ve decided the act that cannot wait / is the important will to create / But, ah, if my belly is ignored / the pantry door I shall implore / But I’ve been known to reach the bed / ideas still famished in my head.

~ Roman Payne

I will always know the glory of the beautiful and rare, as they will know security from labour and prayer. As they will hear the laughter of the children they gave life, I will know the torments of the song born under knife.

~ Roman Payne

Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Curiosity is the main energy...

~ Robert Rauschenberg

We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe

~ Ray Bradbury

I am an obscure and patient pearl-fisherman who dives into the deepest waters and comes up with empty hands and a blue face. Some fatal attraction draws me down into the abysses of thought, down into those innermost recesses which never cease to fascinate the strong. I shall spend my life gazing at the ocean of art, where others voyage or fight; and from time to time I’ll entertain myself by diving for those green and yellow shells that nobody will want. So I shall keep them for myself and cover the walls of my hut with them.

~ Gustave Flaubert

Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them.

~ Flannery O'connor

Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.

~ Leonard Bernstein

Sometimes an artist's first invention is herself.

~ Stephanie Vaughn

She soon learned, though, that giving weight to other people's opinions was creative nihilism; it was like being banished from the Land of No Words and exiled to the Land of All Bullshit.

~ Stephanie Kallos

That's creativity in a nutshell. A messy tug-of-war with imagination to erase that feeling that nothing really matters anyway.

~ Zoe Whittall

Find your authentic voice, become vulnerable, and then put yourself out there.

~ Meredith Brooks

You have to be willing to spend time making things for no known reason.

~ Lynda Barry

...how absurd human beings are and how magnificent.

~ Benjamin Zander

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

He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.

~ Irving Stone