4,594 Quotes About Creativity

Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they're having a piss.

The irony of sensory deprivation tanks is that in order to think outside the box, you must first go inside one.

I think that the real magic in life is that we possess enough imagination to be able to create a bit of it.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

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.

Artistry exists in everyone. What makes it blossom is a soul's personal desire to find an outlet for expression.

You are the birthplace of your own art. Always and forever. Which means you are the art itself. ⠀⠀And that is fucking beautiful.

You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject.

If it’s a pure expression of yourself no matter what it is or what medium, it’s going to shine. It’s going to resonate. You could look inside of yourself and you could have a canvas and you could paint a dot in it, but if that is where your creative purpose is taking you then it needs to be that dot.