4,594 Quotes About Creativity

Many a person cannot bear the thought of being completely controlled by the unconscious.

... if you have the talent and can create, what's stopping you? You're the same creative person whether or not you have a degree in art.

If your creations don’t have the freedom to rebel against you, you’ve done a lousy job. You’re not an artist, just an narcissist.

It has been my personal experience that as I allow the painting to speak I become lost, it is delicious and at the same time frightening. The best ones, to me, have a life of their own.

A composition—and every work of art is one—is created in a wondrous interplay between imagination and reason, or between mind and reflection. For there will always be an element of chance in the creative process.

There are some people who live in a dream world, and some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.

All life is death. You don't fool yourself about this anymore. You slash at the perfect canvas with strokes of paint and replace the perfect picture of your imagination with the reality of what you are capable of. From death, and sorrow, and compromise, you create. This is what it means, you finally realize, to be alive. ("The Chambered Fruit")

Some people are lucky to do what they love for a living, but are unlucky not to be allowed to do it how they want to do it.

I turned myself into an artist because then my life would be about creating meaning out of ugliness and that would be my life, and it was noble. It was the beginning of a journey, the creating of the world every single day and I was not bored. I was ecstasy and creation and nothingness turned into melodies and I was dancing with the spirits.