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New creativity quotes added 06 January, 2022
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
John Muir
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
Leo Buscaglia
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
Pablo Picasso
Your art is the place you always return to. It's the place without borders, time, or expectation. It is a geography of longing that maps its own meaning.
Pat Benincas
In art, the risk is always worth it.
Annie Zalezsak, January 13, 2019
We don't struggle with creativity, we struggle with originality.
Adam Grant
The beauty of art: each day I can create something new, or totally transform what I painted yesterday. It's just like life! We begin, refine and evolve.
Annie Zalezsak, January 19, 2019
Creating art is not just depicting what one sees with the eyes; it’s expressing what one sees with the heart.
Annie Zalezsak, April 23, 2016
There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about.
Helen Frankenthaler
When we stop fearing failure, we start being artists.
Ann Voskamp
Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
Leonardo da Vinci
Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art,
Andy Warhol
Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.
Seth Godin
Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.
DW Winnicott
Go into the arts. I’m not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.
Kurt Vonnegut
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Pablo Picasso
At the deepest level, the creative process and the healing process arise from a single source. When you are an artist, you are a healer.
Rachel Naomi Remen
If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint”, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.
Vincent Van Gogh
Every child is an artist. The problem is staying an artist when you grow up.
Pablo Picasso
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Withholding your dreams, talents and gifts to the world because of fear, is a form of arrogance. You didn't create your gifts, they were bestowed upon you. Doubting their worthiness is an insult to Creation. You are the deliverer. Your mandate is to nurture, grow and express the best in you.
Cynthia Occelli
When we neglect the artist in ourselves, there is a kind of mourning that goes on under the surface of our busy lives.
Pat Schneider
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Henry Ward Beecher
The ability to start out upon your own impulse is fundamental to the gift of keeping going upon your own terms. … Getting started, keeping going, getting started again – in art and in life, it seems to me this is the essential rhythm.
Seamus Heaney, poet
When I say be creative, I don’t mean you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply mean let your life be a painting, let your life be a poem.
Osho
People who earn the label “creative” are really just people who come up with more combinations of ideas, find interesting ones faster, and are willing to try them out. The problem is that most schools and organizations train us out of those habits.
Guy Kawasaki in Reality Check
You are the only one who creates in your experience – no one else. Everything that comes to you comes by the power of your thought. If there are changes you would like to make, it will be of great value to begin telling a different story – not only about your body, but about all subjects that have been troubling to you. As you begin to positively focus, getting to feel so good about so many subjects, you will begin to feel the power that creates worlds flowing through you.
Abraham-Hicks, from the book Money and the Law of Attraction: Learning to Attract Health, Wealth and Happiness
Your talents are worth your devotion. Stop saying you don’t have time or it might not make money. Your talents are another form of oxygen you need to breathe in this lifetime.
Tama Kieves on Facebook
If your dominant intent is to feel joy while you are doing the work, your triad of intentions – freedom, growth and joy – will come quickly and easily into alignment. See your “career” as one of creating a joyful life experience. You are not a creator of things or a regurgitator of what someone else has created or a gatherer of stuff. You are a creator, and the subject of your creation is your joyful life experience. That is your mission. That is your quest. That is why you are here.
Abraham-Hicks, from the book Money and the Law of Attraction: Learning to Attract Health, Wealth and Happiness
O body swayed to music, O brightening glance, how can we know the dancer from the dance?
William Butler Yeats
To be creative, just show up at the canvas, the paper.
Pick up the paintbrush, the pencil.
Begin.
Annie Zalezsak (9 February 2012)
The biggest threat to your creativity is the fear that it’s already been done, said, created. (So why bother?)
Say it, do it, make it anyway — but tell YOUR story along the way.
The story of how you came to know what you know.
The story of what you want to know more of.
The story of why you do what you do.
The story of how you came to care.
And that’s how you create what’s never been created before.
Danielle LaPorte
Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.
Seth Godin
To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.
George Kneller
You are, always and forever, in the moment of pure creation. The point of life is therefore to create.
Neale Donald Walsch
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Thomas Merton
The imagination needs noodling, long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling, and puttering.
Brenda Uela
All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
Federico Fellini
And I found that when I built my own place and just shut the door, the creativity was endless.
Billy Sherwood
All you need is passion. If you have a passion for something, you’ll create the talent.
Yanni
All art is completely subjective. I encourage viewers to see what they wish to see in my art. This ability to interpret through our own unique perspective is what makes us all artists and creators.
Annie Zalezsak, 18 January 2012
In one of the Upanishads it says, when the glow of a sunset holds you and you say 'Aha,' that is the recognition of the divinity. And when you say 'Aha' to an art object, that is a recognition of divinity. And what divinity is it? It is your divinity, which is the only divinity there is. We are all phenomenal manifestations of a divine will to live, and that will and the consciousness of life is one in all of us, and that is what artwork expresses.
Joseph Campbell, "Creativity," The Mythic Dimension, p154
The boundaries restricting a writer's artistic expression are entirely imagined.
Robin Hoffman
Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.
David Duchovny
Investing your true creativity to help others results in natural profit.
Annie Zalezsak, 8 August 2011
Just create to create. Create to remind yourself you're still alive. Make stuff to inspire others to make something too. Create to learn a bit more about yourself.
Frederick Terral
The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.
Victor Papanek
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one’s chosen form.
Stephen Nachmanovitch
You are an artist of the spirit. Find yourself and express yourself in your own particular way. Express your love openly. Life is nothing but a dream, and if you create your life with love, your dream becomes a masterpiece of art.
don Miguel Ruiz
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.
Robert Hughes, art critic
God, the supreme artist, uses our life for the creation of art. We are the instruments through which the force of life expresses itself. We express our art in everything we say, everything we feel, and everything we do. The creation is ongoing, it is endless, it is happening in every moment.
don Miguel Ruiz
But, if you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself.
Carl Jung
Another word for creativity is courage.
George Prince
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.
Charles Mingus
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
Frank Capra
An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
Edwin Land
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
Sylvia Plath
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
Eugene Delacroix
Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
Paul Cezanne
Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.
Mary Lou Cook
If man understood that “what I create has nothing to do with what anybody else is creating” then he wouldn’t be so afraid of what others are doing.
Abraham-Hicks, from a workshop in El Paso, Texas, USA November 14, 1998
We rely upon artists to articulate what most of us can only feel in joy and sorrow. Whenever I feel my courage wavering I rush to them. They will give me the wisdom of acceptance, the will and resilience to push on.
Helen Hayes
You are the only one who creates in your experience – no one else. Everything that comes to you comes by the power of your thought. If there are changes you would like to make, it will be of great value to begin telling a different story – not only about your body, but about all subjects that have been troubling to you. As you begin to positively focus, getting to feel so good about so many subjects, you will begin to feel the power that creates worlds flowing through you.
Abraham-Hicks, from Money, and the Law of Attraction: Learning to Attract Wealth, Health, and Happiness
He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.
St Francis of Assisi
Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
Dee Hock
Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?
Pablo Picasso
You are a gifted and talented person. All successful people focus on what they are good at. Do not try and be a jack of all trades or a good all-rounder. If you go to a music concert you will not see the musicians selling t-shirts or flipping burgers. You will see them playing music and that is all they will do. If you go to the theatre, you will not find the actors selling tickets. They are in the dressing room getting ready for their performance.
Steve Nobel
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
Robert Kennedy
Use the talents you possess – for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except for the best.
Henry Van Dyke
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Joseph Chilton Pierce
It’s so important to unclutter the mind. For me, creativity is greatly impeded just by the chatter and visual clutter of life. It’s really important to have a space that is really clear for whatever is emerging to come.
Alice Walker
The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.
Jackson Pollock
All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.
MC Richards
We are all saying the same thing in different words.
from There is a Place Where You Are Not Alone, by Hugh Prather
The artist is not a special kind of man, but every man is a special kind of artist.
Meister Eckhart
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, the ant. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things.
Pablo Picasso
Writing this book was a little like being pregnant. I could feel something forming and growing inside of me and I knew that I was creating even though nothing seemed to be happening externally. The baby would emerge when it was fully formed and ready.
from Living in the Light, by Shakti Gawain
The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.
Piet Mondrian
True creative expression, seen as a series of consecutive art movements, is like the trail of a star as it shoots across the sky. It is meaningful creation written in light, evidence of something luminous and largely aware, moving across time. Creativity brings into form inspired, new reality. Perceived from a retrospective vantage point, art history is simply an evolving series of divinely inspired whispers arranged neatly in a row. Intuition of the language of the stars is given to anyone fearlessly willing to let go of the past and to open themselves to the emerging forces of the divine.
from The Inspired Heart, p 135-136, by Jerry Wennstrom
I learned to just show up at the page and write down what I heard. Writing became more like eavesdropping and less like inventing a nuclear bomb.
from The Artist’s Way, by Julia Cameron
We, as spiritual beings, created the physical world as a place to learn. It’s our school, our playground, our artist’s studio. I beleive that we’re here to master the process of creation – to learn how to consciously channel the creative energy of spirit into physical form.
from Living in the Light, by Shakti Gawain
To create, sometimes you must rebel.
Isabelle Duschenay, figure skater, in the film Fire and Ice
What a Beethoven, Shakespeare or Picasso has done is not create something, so much as they have accessed that place within themselves from which they could express that which has been created by God.
from A Return to Love, by Marianne Williamson
Discovery consists in seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi 1893-1986
We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American author and philosopher
The tiny act of drawing on the found envelope was the beginning of creation’s return flight into my life, sanctified. I was doing what I wanted to do in a new way. Since art was what I knew best, I brought it with me as a gift when I went somewhere to work with people, or when I stayed in someone’s home. The offering of this aspect of my life was not any sort of barter, a word people often use in trying to explain my life. Instead, it was a spontaneous act with no strings attached, done out of love. When I created art for someone, it was the natural, immediate response to the calling of a larger harmony. Response of this type and nonattachment seem to be prerequisites for the sacredness and magic of any real offering to God or human.
from The Inspired Heart, p135-136, by Jerry Wennstrom
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.
Abraham Maslow (1908-1970) American psychologist
In the end it all comes down to enthusiasm. Your creativity is basically your expression of God-force. There is nothing more marvelous than doing something you love to do and getting paid for it. It ceases to become work, money, and effort; and it becomes fun, your expression of the joy of life.
from The Trick to Money Is Having Some! by Stuart Wilde
The creativity that comes from ambition often has the taint of ego in it, no matter how majestic or laudable the production. Its contribution usually serves the general thrust of competition in the world. It titillates the movements of ego and often fosters jealousy and resentment
The creativity that comes from silence, from a quiet heart, feels different from that of ambition to both the creator and the observer. When the artist or the worker is out of the way, both the creator and the observer experience the art as simply a gift, an expression of the impersonal intelligence shared by all. The creator has no need to take credit for it, the observer no need to possess it.
from Passionate Presence, p21-22, by Catherine Ingram
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
General George S Patton
A painter paints pictures on canvas but musicians paint their pictures on silence.
Leopold Stokowski
The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even in the midst of a collapsing world.
Friedrich Nietzsche
When you give in to creative passion, it will bring you to the ultimate thresholds of transfiguration and renewal. This growth causes pain but it is a sacred pain. It would be much more tragic to have cautiously avoided these depths and remained marooned on the shiny surfaces of the banal.
from Anam Cara, Spiritual Wisdom from the Celtic World (p45), by John O’Donohue
Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
Arthur Koestler
Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work, risking, and by not quite knowing what you’re doing. What you’ll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
Alan Alda
Creativity, as has been said, consists largely of rearranging what we know in order to find out what we do not know. Hence, to think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.
George Kneller
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