4,594 Quotes About Creativity

We do not need to sacrifice ourselves on the altar of our creativity – it can be a transformative mode of healing, rather than a drawn-out self-destruction.

Safe art may soothe us, but it will never transform us.

For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life - the light and the air which vary continually. For me, it is only the surroundingatmosphere which gives subjects their true value.

I spoke fire, laughed smoke, and madness spilled forth from my inspiration.

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

Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion.

It is said that you can't write without a reader. The opposite holds true as well; you can't read without a writer. But if as a single, creative person you are one in the same, then, well.....problem solved! Great writing is born from that which we personally long to read.

When you are open to creativity, that's when you are more vulnerable.

If the painter wishes to see beauties that charm him, it lies in his power to create them, and if he wishes to see monstrosities that are frightful, ridiculous, or truly pitiable, he is lord and God thereof.