4,594 Quotes About Creativity

Think not of the fragility of life, but of the power of books, when mere words can change our lives simply by being next to each other.

Using your talent, hobby or profession in a way that makes you contribute with something good to this world is truly the way to go.

I began to write because of love. I wrote to understand what I felt and what I knew.

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.

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.

You don’t make art out of good intentions.

The real importance of automatism lay in the fact that it led to a different relation between the artist and the creative act. Where the artist had traditionally been seen as someone who invents a personal world, bringing into being something unique to his own 'genius', the surrealists conceived themselves as explorers and researchers rather than 'artist' in the traditional sense and it was discovery rather than invention that became crucial for them.

I plan to publish books in other genres and continue to not put myself in a box when it comes to my art.

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.