Creative Artist Quotes

#1. I'm an artist, and the need to get inside myself and be creative and be other people is a part of who I am. I don't imagine I'll abandon that completely.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#2. It always seemed to me," she said at last, "that it must require a great deal of courage to be an artist, if only because the creative process is such a lonely one. I should imagine it must be all the more difficult for a woman.

Richard Yates

#3. A man becomes creative, whether he is an artist or scientist, when he finds a new unity in the variety of nature. He does so by finding a likeness between things which were not thought alike before.

Jacob Bronowski

#4. As an artist, I understand that, and I value the creative input of the artist.

Charlton Heston

#5. In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.

Viktor E. Frankl

#6. It is hard to describe the thrill of creative joy which the artist feels when the conviction seizes her that at last she has caught the very soul of the character she wishes to portray, in the music and action which reveal it.

Maria Jeritza

#7. I pay tribute to the writing always. The writer is a creative artist and the director is an interpretive artist and the actors are interpretive. You take zero and make it into something, that's always amazing to me.

Clint Eastwood

#8. The teacher, like the artist and the philosopher, can perform his work adequately only if he feels himself to be an individual directed by an inner creative impulse, not dominated and fettered by an outside authority.

Bertrand Russell

#9. Be non-trend-driven, and explore, be creative and take risks as an artist and as a cultural communicator.

Zac Posen

#10. There is actually no such thing as an Artist type. 'Artist' is just an economic designation, a box you tick on a form. We are all people, and we are all creative.

Russell Smith

#11. I'd say we [Apple Inc.] are the most creative of the technology companies and definitely the most artist-friendly. Almost everyone in the music business uses a Mac and everyone has an iPod.

Steve Jobs

#12. When you're young artist, it's really important to like pay attention to what you're doing and be honest with yourself and in the creative proccess.

Chester Bennington

#13. In my own case, I'm an artist, and I'm really interested in expanding the vocabulary of human action, and basically empowering people through interactivity. I want people to discover themselves as actors, as creative actors, by having interactive experiences.

Golan Levin

#14. All artists and creative people are basically unhappy people. If you were happy, that would mean you were content with the world as it was and why would you ever want to change it?

Peter Schjeldahl

#15. Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.

Montgomery Clift

#16. All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life.

Rollo May

#17. Every young artist has to do it one way, his [or her] way, and the hell with patterns. Remember who you are and where you are and what you are doing ... And never take advice, including this.

Katherine Anne Porter

#18. 'Brand-Dropping' is the term that the Kluger Agency coined to describe discreetly advertising by product mentioning in song, and we feel we can make this the way of the future without jeopardizing any artist's creative outlet or typical style.

Adam Kluger

#19. A critic is not a creative artist, is a commenter, a midwife of creativity, but not creative himself.

Terry Teachout

#20. One of the things I love about doing things that are creative is that I feel like it's my right as an artist not to be affected by the reactions of those people that are going to hear my songs.

Zooey Deschanel

#21. Allow some warm-up time each day to stimulate your creative flow. A pianist does keyboard exercises. A gymnast stretches. An artist needs to loosen up, too. It takes a few minutes to shift from the real world into a creative mode.

Nita Leland

#22. True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

Albert Einstein

#23. The public is a great actuality, like war. If you are a creative and creating artist, you cannot ignore it, though it can ignore you.

Arnold Bennett

#24. I see many people who disguise themselves. I know some people who say, "I'm an artist, I'm very creative, I'm different from ordinary people." But I don't believe those people. I like to see the strangeness or weirdness in ordinary people or ordinary scenery or ordinary, everyday life.

Haruki Murakami

#25. I think I'm most proud of the fact that I have figured out how to exist as both a creative person and artist, and a businesswoman and manager. Because those two things do not go together.

Shonda Rhimes

#26. It's not what you do, it's the way you do it that makes you an artist. Whatever you do do it with all your heart. Be what you are Be creative!

Denny Dent

#27. Pseudo-artists think that being an artist means opposing whatever seems to be an establishment. That is not creative at all. True creativity is the ability to gain perspective wherever you may have missed it before.

Criss Jami

#28. She gave life a meaning.
She was art, dressed like a painters pallet, bright and unaware of how goddam beautiful she could be turned into; with the right touch, her smile was the brush and her story was the canvas.

Nikki Rowe

#29. My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.

Abbie Cornish

#30. The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.

Marcel Duchamp

#31. The value of an artist is more because of his originality than his skill.

Amit Kalantri

#32. I started off playing by ear, and being around a bunch of musicians and playing in the streets and in the different parades and, then, I got accepted to go to New Orleans Center for Creative Artists ... it's where Wynton Marsalis, Harry Connick, Jr. and all those guys went out.

Troy Andrews

#33. I never really followed the traditional route when it comes to what people probably expect as a solo artist goes, but that's just me. It's my own creative output and it's my expression.

Nick Carter

#34. [We need to] protect copyright at all costs. Don't do cheap deals with Google and these other cyber-monsters. Recognize that the creative artist has to be maintained.

Harold Evans

#35. A third way of attaining union lies in creative activity, be it that of the artist, or of the artisan. In any kind of creative work the creating person unites himself with his material, which represents the world outside

Erich Fromm

#36. I think every creative impulse that a working writer, or artist of any sort has, comes out of that dark old country where dreams come from.

Anne Rivers Siddons

#37. An artist's job is to inspire, from the Latin inspirare: to breathe into. The primary function of art is to inspire new thought shaped by emotions using the creative mediums we master - be it painting, music, design, craft, or photography.

Anonymous

#38. Fortunately, artists can live off their works, if you're creative at how you do it. If you just depend on the videos and the radio, you're at a loss.

Talib Kweli

#39. She pours sugar on her life
and drinks the artist's marrow
in the bone of her glass and she lives.

Kelli Russell Agodon

#40. I can obviously relate to a character who is an artist, because the creative process is a big part of my life.

Paul Dano

#41. Assuming that rapture is nature's play with man, the Dionysian artist's creative activity is the play with rapture.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#42. I am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored, and very dangerous, but I think essential to the creative life of an artist.

Brandon Boyd

#43. The creative mind can turn chaos into a master piece and call it Art.

Nikki Rowe

#44. The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

Raymond Chandler

#45. The critic, to interpret his artist, even to understand his artist, must be able to get into the mind of his artist; he must feel and comprehend the vast pressure of the creative passion.

H.L. Mencken

#46. In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist.

Salman Rushdie

#47. There is, perhaps, no more dangerous man in the world than the man with the sensibilities of an artist but without creative talent. With luck such men make wonderful theatrical impresarios and interior decorators, or else they become mass murderers or critics.

Dame Edna Everage

#48. The degree of talent, the size of the gift, is immaterial. All artists must listen, but not all hear great symphonies, see wide canvasses, conceive complex, character-filled novels. No
matter, the creative act is the same, and it is an act of faith.

Madeleine L'Engle

#49. America is no place for an artist: to be an artist is to be a moral leper, an economic misfit, a social liability. A corn-fed hog enjoys a better life than a creative writer, painter or musician. To be a rabbit is better still.

Henry Miller

#50. June Jordan once said something which is just wonderful. I'm paraphrasing her-that her function as a poet was to make revolution irresistible. Well o.k. that is the function of us all, as creative artists, to make the truth, as we see it irresistible.

Audre Lorde

#51. I've always said that the artist dies twice. And the first death is the hardest which is the career death, the creative death. The physical death is an inevitability.

Sylvester Stallone

#52. There has to be solidarity among the artists, songwriters and all the creative forces within that circle in order for the necessary changes to take place and for each person to get what is rightfully due.

Oleta Adams

#53. It was a period when live TV was just starting and getting popular and they took it seriously too. Not so much like TV now. They did [Ernst] Hemingway and [William] Faulkner - and they're all wonderful artists and it just was very creative at that time.

Gena Rowlands

#54. The simple truth is that being a creative artist takes courage; it's not a job for the faint of heart. It takes courage each and every time you put a book or poem or painting before the public, because it is, in fact, enormously revealing.

Terri Windling

#55. For the cynic, art is defined through money. That, of course, is a very sad statement. But an artist is someone who does creative things.

Wolfgang Beltracchi

#56. 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; a wordless trust of the same mystery is the foundation of your work and its integrity.

Rachel Naomi Remen

#57. If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today.

Salman Rushdie

#58. 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.

Shakti Gawain

#59. You know you possess the soul of an artist when, each time you sit down to create, the whole universe lays itself at your feet.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

#60. There's no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there's no end to it.

Henry Moore

#61. It's impossible for a creative artist to be either a Puritan or a Fascist, because both are a negation of the creative urge. The only things a creative artist can be opposed to are ugliness and injustice.

Liam O'Flaherty

#62. It is beyond logic that we see the light.

Julieanne O'Connor

#63. Art is a journey of excellence not a goal of perfection.

Jacqueline Patricks

#64. I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist's hand even were that magic hand in true place. It has been too far exploited by industrialism and science at expense to art and true religion.

Frank Lloyd Wright

#65. Each of us is an artist of our days; the greater our integrity and awareness, the more original and creative our time will become.

John O'Donohue

#66. Creativity requires introspection, self-examination, and a willingness to take risks. Because of this, artists are perhaps more susceptible to self-doubt and despair than those who do not court the creative muses.

Eric Maisel

#67. It's neither and it's both. That's the perfect kind of art. Labels only detract from the artist's intention.

Ted Dekker

#68. Today we've learned to celebrate mediocrity. Back in the day we had creative artists; today we have created artists.

Lionel Richie

#69. When an artist friend of mine explained she was working her way up the creative ladder, I asked if she would kindly paint the front of my house on the way up.

Benny Bellamacina

#70. Everyone is here on earth as an artist; to tell his particular story or sing her irreplaceable song; to leave a unique creative signature.

Leonard Wolf

#71. Artists don't like the business side. None of us were born understanding money. We all had to learn how to do it. So it's just something creative people need to get familiar with ... not really so scary.

Adam Leipzig

#72. Creativity is a way of living life, no matter what our vocation, or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts ...

Madeleine L'Engle

#73. Painters must want to paint above all else. If the artist in front of the canvas begins to wonder how much he will sell it for, or what the critics will think of it, he won't be able to pursue original avenues. Creative achievements depend on single-minded immersion.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#74. If you have one person you're influenced by, everyone will say you're the next whoever. But if you rip off a hundred people, everyone will say you're so original.

Austin Kleon

#75. I am the wood frame, the bundle of ox hair, and the creative spark ... my value unhangable.

Marina Leigh Duff

#76. 'The Creative Habit' is basically about how you work alone, how you survive as a solitary artist. 'The Collaborative Habit' is obviously about surviving with other people.

Twyla Tharp

#77. To cherish perfection is to commit creative suicide, and every true artist knows that a masterpiece is an accident that should be burned.

Barry Hughart

#78. They told me that they are starting a classic label, and wanted me to be the first artist. So I signed, and am producing myself, and writing my own music, but I'm their first artist on their classic label. And I have creative control.

Teena Marie

#79. In the creative act, the artist goes from intention to realization through a chain of totally subjective reactions.

Marcel Duchamp

#80. A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist.

E. M. Forster

#81. Women can also be creative in total isolation. I know excellent women artists who do original work without any response to speak of. Maybe they are used to lack of feedback. Maybe they are tougher.

Elaine De Kooning

#82. This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.

Franz Kafka

#83. I was poorer than anyone I'd ever met. But it was a great time to be a young artist - I remember it as a period of exceptional creative freedom and adventure, when one was regularly presented with works of art unlike anything one had ever seen before.

Michael Craig-Martin

#84. An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours.

Irving Stone

#85. I've noticed in my life that as you work on more things with more people, you spend less time hanging out with other people who are artists, creative people who give you a sense of family.

Aaron Rose

#86. You've got to run your career. What happens is a lot of times artists have this talent and they're just looking for somebody to take it and do something with it. And you have to be the creative force.

Will Smith

#87. I'm not a very creative person, you know? I'm not really an art person. I'm not a great reader or writer or artist or musician.

Tom Brady

#88. I think being an artist, or just being creative, or imaginative, or aware, where I think everybody starts out, and by about the age of 10, that's been pretty effectively whipped out by education.

William Wiley

#89. As an artist you have to fight and survive the wilderness to keep your creative freedom. Creativity is very fragile.

Karel Appel

#90. I shy away from the word 'creation.' In the ordinary, social meaning of the word - well, it's very nice, but fundamentally, I don't believe in the creative function of the artist. He's a man like any other.

Marcel Duchamp

#91. The creative artist is the one wanting to make order out of chaos. The rest of us just accept disorder -if we even recognize it- and get a bang out of our five beautiful senses, if we're lucky.

Ursula Nordstrom

#92. I am an artist you know ... it is my right to be odd.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#93. The essential of painting is that 'something', that 'ethereal glue,' that 'intermediary product' which the artist exudes with all his creative being and which he has the power to place, to encrust, to impregnate into the pictorial matter of the painting.

Yves Klein

#94. I'm a designer. I make clothes and bags and shoes. I have a job that involves making creative choices, but I'm not a divinely inspired human being like an artist!

Marc Jacobs

#95. The difference with a major label and independent is mainly resources. That's the difference that I feel sometimes where I as an artist would have to be more creative and more patient.

Goapele

#96. You cannot grow If you are not reading.

Andrea L'Artiste

#97. The creative strength is good enough and deep enough to bring itself to flower and to grow in spite of this sickness.

Joanne Greenberg

#98. Re-creative artists are investigators.

William Boughton

#99. The function of the creative artist consists of making laws, not in following laws already made.

Ferruccio Busoni

#100. Part of your job as an artist is to push yourself and make sure your creative juices are flowing.

Benjamin Walker