4,594 Quotes About Creativity

What does it mean to be a "real artist"? It means you are spending your time doing the things that matter most to you. It means you don't need someone else's permission to create.

Creativity thrives where its roots are crowded.

The scary part of being an artist is knowing that what makes you a better artist can also kill you.

PEOPLE WITH GREAT WILL POWER ARE UNIMAGINATIVE.THEY CAN'T EVEN FIND GOOD EXCUSES.

Art is not just a display of beauty. Art also reflects what is ugly, and it celebrates the grotesque. An artist frequently creates what we describe as beautiful by depicting what is at first glance unpleasing, peculiar, or abnormal and casting the unpleasant, strange, or outlandish images into a more agreeable light that reaches deeper truths.

We have to imagine more courageously if we are to greet creation more fully.

Every creature is a co-creator.

It is strange that the imagination is the most productive when it finds no outer objects: then it creates objects itself and forms them all the more carefully, because there is no foreign material, but only its own children. There is no poetry in enjoyment (reality kills the dream), only in longing[.]

Art doesn’t give rise to anything in us that isn’t already there. It simply stirs our curious consciousness and sparks a fire that illuminates who we have always wanted to be.