Top 100 Creativity Artist Quotes
#1. Artists die twice. First creatively. Then physically. The second one is the easiest.
Sylvester Stallone
#2. Jo told me once that she was an old woman everywhere but in her studio. "There I'm only myself," she'd said. Standing in the middle of masterpieces that only Jo had ever seen and touched, I knew what she meant.
Laura Anderson Kurk
#3. I'm not religious, but by nature I am spiritual. I'm an artist, and creativity seems to go hand in hand with spirituality. But I have a knee-jerk reaction against organized religions. Actually, I have knee-jerk reactions against anything that's organized.
Nikki Sixx
#4. She was in awe of all his work. 'How do you do it?" she asked.
He smiled and said, 'By loving you.
Kamand Kojouri
#5. Every man in creating the beautiful appearance of the dream worlds is a perfect artist.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#6. My motto for creativity-
And remember, STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST.
Austin Kleon
#7. People like to think the creative process is romantic. The artist drifts to sleep at night, to be awakened by the subliminal echoes of his or her next brilliant idea. The truth, for me at least, is that creativity is primarily the result of hard work and study.
Grant Achatz
#8. I would rather be an artist than a leader. Ironically, a leader has to follow the rules.
Criss Jami
#9. An artist should paint from the heart, and not always what people expect. Predictability often leads to the dullest work, in my opinion, and we have been bored stiff long enough I think.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#10. Every artist makes herself born. You must bring the artist into the world yourself.
Willa Cather
#11. Hopefully, you will glimpse something of your own life's journey and with Elemental's Power of Illuminated Love, possibly recognize and celebrate something you had not been able to recognize or celebrate before.
Luther E. Vann
#12. To the memory of Vincent Van Gogh, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, El Greco, and many others who came before me as well as those who will come after. We are one. Thank you.
Luther E. Vann
#13. The whole world is like an opened candy jar, and we're plunging in for the best treats
Vicki Alayne Bradley
#14. I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?
David Byrne
#15. The other day, when I was deciding where to place a mountain range, how to make a river's flow detour around underground stalactite caves, and what precise color to give the sky at sunset, I realized I was God ... or an artist and a writer.
Vera Nazarian
#17. Theater is the crucible where we can create the dynamics of life without suffering the flames of their combustion.
Tom Althouse
#18. Creativity is the mother of all energies, nurturer of your most alive self. It charges up every part of you. When you're plugged in, a spontaneous combustion occurs that 'artists' don't have a monopoly on.
Judith Orloff
#19. All children are artists, and it is an indictment of our culture that so many of them lose their creativity, their unfettered imaginations, as they grow older.
Madeleine L'Engle
#20. I think an artist can fit under a few different categories depending on how much you explore your creativity. It can vary from artist to artist from musician to performer to vocalist. I thrive on creativity. So in the long run I want to be an all around entertainer.
Christina Aguilera
#21. The complete recipe for imagination is absolute boredom.
Criss Jami
#22. The power of creativity does not just lie in an artist's work, but also in how he or she continues to create regardless of the obstacles life places in the way.
Sharon Louden
#23. Everyone is an artist. Everyone is creative in their own way and that that creativity is a great thing. It's a human thing and it needs to be nurtured and it can help us go down life's path and help us to become deeper, richer, more satisfied human beings.
Rainn Wilson
#24. My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.
Thomas Hardy
#25. The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, inventors, storytellers-creative and holistic 'right-brain' thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn't.
Daniel H. Pink
#26. A good artist does not just make imaginations beautiful to the mind, but also more pleasant to the eye with a superb visible touch of excellence.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#27. If you're going to be an artist, real life is your inspiration.
Madonna Ciccone
#28. The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.
G.K. Chesterton
#29. Artists strive to free this true and spontaneous self in their work. Creativity, meditation are ways of freeing an inner voice.
Gloria Steinem
#30. I think that 'Floor Sample' is a story of resiliency, a lifelong spiritual search, and a lifelong sense of spiritual companionship that is most often expressed as creativity. My desire in writing the book was to step from behind the icon of 'Julia the teacher' and introduce 'Julia the artist.'
Julia Cameron
#31. Technology is technology and then art form and people's creativity is another thing. Anything that helps an artist do anything - great! Technology for technology sake doesn't mean much to me anyway.
Tim Burton
#32. Creativity is not linear, just like the earth is not flat ... If you keep going long enough you will always get back to where you started from. That is when you have lived a full life. That is the artist's path.
Nikki Sixx
#33. The modern notion of art is an essentially religious or magical one in which the artist is viewed as a holy beast who in some way, big or small, receives flashes from the godhead, which is known as creativity.
Tom Wolfe
#35. Magic is not just for the entertainment, but to inspire people to be creative enough with their lives.
Amit Kalantri
#36. I was listening to Jimi Hendrix; I just admire his artistry and creativity as an artist.
LL Cool J
#37. The capacity to work feeds on itself and has its own course of development. This is what artists have going for them.
Anne Truitt
#39. Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene.
John Barth
#40. Art is in the eye of the beholder, and everyone will have their own interpretation.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#41. For instance, in The Artist's Way, her influential book about cultivating creativity, Julia Cameron suggests scheduling an artist's date,
Gretchen Rubin
#42. As an artist, motive means opportunity
Siren Waroe
#43. Creativity is the brain's invisible muscle -- that when used and excercised routinely -- becomes better and stronger.
Ashley Ormon
#44. The creative ability of an artist is manifested only if he succeeds in transforming the natural phenomena into 'another reality.' This part of the creative process as an independent element, if conscious and developed, hints at the possibility of creating a painting.
Frantisek Kupka
#45. Through artistry, imagination not only allows one to express their creativity, but also their soul.
Donald L. Hicks
#46. We are all creators. Whether or not we create is not up to us. We are human, and creating is what we do. Every interaction, movement, and decision is creativity at work. We are all artists. We all order creation around us into the world that we want to make.
Michael Gungor
#47. My heart balloons with admiration for these talented artists, which I so desperately want to be
Vicki Alayne Bradley
#48. For an artist to do creative work, he needs at once physical health and some physiomental ill health. He needs both serenity and gloom.
Yukio Mishima
#49. Art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. It severed an umbilical cord and now lives its own sterile life, generating and degenerating itself. In former days the artist remained unknown and his work was to the glory of God.
Ingmar Bergman
#50. My dad is a lawyer and my mom is an artist. So growing up was exactly what it sounds like - strict household but a lot of creativity. They are so psyched that I get to make music for a living. My parents rule.
Ty Segall
#51. For artists, scientists, inventors, schoolchildren, and the rest of us, intrinsic motivation-the drive to do something because it is interesting, challenging, and absorbing-is essential for high levels of creativity.
Daniel H. Pink
#52. 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
#53. Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
Pablo Picasso
#54. Artistic temperament is like a king with vigor and unlimited opportunity. You shake the structure to pieces by playing with it.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#55. 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
#56. Once in his lifetime every artist feels the hand of God and creates something that comes alive.
Crane Wilbur
#57. The body, in 'La Belle Noiseuse,' was the source of the artist's creativity.
Emmanuelle Beart
#58. Whoever uses the spirit that is
in him creatively is an artist. To
make living itself an art, that is
the goal.
Henry Miller
#59. He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.
Irving Stone
#60. The shaman is the figure at the beginning of human history that unites the doctor, the scientist and the artist into a single notion of care-giving and creativity.
Terence McKenna
#61. Mistress Creation keeps calling my name ... i long for her, and she, for me ... we will be reunited soon. In the interim, i bide my time dreaming of her, writing about her and stretching her across the vast landscape of my imagination. "Soon", i whisper to her, "Soon
Jaeda DeWalt
#62. To be a good artist / letterer / designer / guitar player it takes practice. A lot of it. More than you can even fathom when you're starting out.
Jessica Hische
#63. My fans like to be romantic. I feel like I'm creating at least at the same level or even a higher level of creativity than I was at twenty-one. I've gotten better as an artist.
Talib Kweli
#64. The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all written about the same things, and if they had lived one thousand or two thousand years longer, the publishers wouldn't have needed anyone since.
William Faulkner
#65. Renaissance artist Gregorio Comanini, has counseled the equivalent of Live an ordinary, regular life so you can be irregular and brilliant in your creativity.
Jeff VanderMeer
#66. 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
#67. The artist speaks with inspiring tools of creativity. Thinkers challenge with the weapons of choice. These two forces are necessary to move souls beyond limitation.
T.F. Hodge
#68. A critic is not a creative artist, is a commenter, a midwife of creativity, but not creative himself.
Terry Teachout
#70. At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.
Seth Godin
#71. In the act of creativity, the artist lets go the self-control which he normally clings to and is open to riding the wind.
Madeleine L'Engle
#72. I think if the copyright regime focuses on the people we are supposed to be helping, the artists and creators, and builds a system that gives them the freedom to choose and to protect and to be rewarded for their creativity, then we will have the right focus.
Lawrence Lessig
#73. I think of childhood as an explosion of creativity. For most people, growing up and earning a living means leaving all that behind. But an artist never leaves that behind. Edwin Mullhouse was my way of exploring the child as artist and, under the guise of childhood, something larger.
Steven Millhauser
#74. In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.
Viktor E. Frankl
#77. Persecution inspires men who otherwise would have remained dormant. As pain whips the painter, his brush whips the canvas.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#78. 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.
Luther E. Vann
#79. There's a lack of creativity in every field because people are afraid. As an artist in this world we can do whatever we want
Kanye West
#80. One is either an artist or one is not. It is not something one becomes. It is something that one is from birth. We do not study to be artists. We study to become more proficient. To understand more.
Edward Swift
#81. Up on the Brooklyn Bridge a man is standing in agony, waiting to jump, or waiting to write a poem, or waiting for the blood to leave his vessels because if he advances another foot the pain of his love will kill him.
Henry Miller
#82. When creativity has become your habit; when you've learned to manage time, resources, expectations, and the demands of others; when you understand the value and place of validation, continuity, and purity of purpose, then you're on the way to an artist's ultimate goal; the achievement of mastery.
Twyla Tharp
#84. The creative journey is not a trek through the wilderness, but actually a clearly defined path, which though not visible to our outside eyes, can be felt with our inner senses.
Lucy H. Pearce
#85. The artist is a vessel for creativity. He has the key to the door of a very special place, which he can open at will. He doesn't paint but is painted through.
Thomas J. Katz
#86. If an artist wants to use his mind for creative work, cutting oneself off from society is a necessary thing
Glenn Gould
#87. The artist has a special task and duty ... reminding people of their humanity and the promise of their creativity.
Lewis Mumford
#88. If you are wiling to do something that might not work, you are closer to being an artist.
Seth Godin
#89. Grace, not willpower, is what ultimately empowers us to live loving lives. Creativity, both in what spawns within the artist and the artifact, can be a vital source of that grace.
Ronald Rolheiser
#90. As an artist you have to fight and survive the wilderness to keep your creative freedom. Creativity is very fragile.
Karel Appel
#91. If you are any kind of an artist, then validation ... can be a result, but you're going to do the work anyway. Because you're just wired that way. It's so engrained, it's such a part of your personality that you don't just stop doing it.
David Sedaris
#92. An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours.
Irving Stone
#93. As an artist, one of the toughest things to do is getting someone to understand why you think the way you think. And as much as i don't wanna care what they think about my thinking, it comes down to making them understand or watching them leave.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#94. I am the wood frame, the bundle of ox hair, and the creative spark ... my value unhangable.
Marina Leigh Duff
#95. I do not know anything about Art with a capital A. What I do know about is my art. Because it concerns me. I do not speak for others. So I do not speak for things which profess to speak for others. My art, however, speaks for me. It lights my way.
Mark Z. Danielewski
#96. The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.
Piet Mondrian
The Artist's Way A Spiritual Path to Greater Creativity by Julia Cameron
Piet Mondrian
#97. Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.
Theodor Reik
#98. If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there's no point in it ... for me, every act of art is the act of solving a mystery.
Truman Capote
#99. 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
#100. 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
