Quotes About Creative Inspiration

#1. My inner guidance is there for me to call on anytime I need or want extra clarity, wisdom, knowledge, support, creative inspiration, love, or companionship.

Shakti Gawain

#2. That's always the most productive research - research into tone, into voice. Facts are nice, too, but facts are more raw material than creative inspiration.

Jonathan Dee

#3. Stop waiting for creative inspiration. Start creating and inspire yourself along the way.

Ryan Lilly

#4. Being surrounded by artistic and musical beauty soothes the soul, bringing both quiet calm and creative inspiration ...

Wayne D. Dosick

#5. Depression is the flip side of creative inspiration but it can be useful. It's telling you to stop for a little bit. You can become so fully absorbed in the world of creative work that it can lead to some imbalance in your life.

Shaun Tan

#6. Every invention begins with an original thought. You are God's original thought. You are his initiative, the fruit of his creative inspiration, his intimate design and love-dream.

Francois Du Toit

#7. Every time you express a complaint about how difficult and tiresome it is to be creative, inspiration takes another step away from you,

Elizabeth Gilbert

#8. When it comes to creative inspiration, job titles and hierarchy are meaningless.

Ed Catmull

#9. Silence is the great teacher and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence.

Deepak Chopra

#10. All inspiration comes from a higher power. The body is a shell. The creative spot is from God - You hear voices, everybody does. When you get older, you refer to it as intuition.

Eddie Murphy

#11. Having ideas is not the same thing as being creative. Creation is execution, not inspiration.

Kevin Ashton

#12. The routine is as much a part of the creative process as the lightening bold of inspiration, maybe more. And this routine is available to everyone.

Twyla Tharp

#13. A master's (an artist's) Modus Vivendi is to guide his creative self on the path of generating ideas, in a synergistic work resonating with the client's needs and Universe inspiration.

VIRGIL PROFEANU

#14. Life is beautiful dream.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. You get inspiration from craziest places. It's just about being creative. You gotta step outside that box, you know what I'm saying, to reach the people. You never know who can feel it; who it can connect to.

Nayvadius Cash

#16. If you seek creative ideas go walking.
Angels whisper to a man when he goes for
a walk.

Raymond I. Myers

#17. I don't believe in the model of pure inspiration. All of my creative work stems from a dialogue with others.

Rachel Kushner

#18. Inspiration for my 'Nerdy Nummies' videos comes from all over. Many of the ideas originate from the games, comics or movies I'm excited about. My family is really creative as well and are constantly sending me their thoughts.

Rosanna Pansino

#19. All you have to do is put one word after another, and remember how great it feels to be a writer.

Stephanie Lennox

#20. Seeing yourself as part of a creative lineage will help you feel less alone as you start making your own stuff. I hang pictures of my favourite artists in my studio. They're like friendly ghosts. I can almost feel them pushing me forward as I'm hunched over my desk.

Austin Kleon

#21. I don't find inspiration on Wall Street. I don't find that in Beverly Hills. I don't find that in places where opportunity resides unbridled, and I think the real creative energy and the real juice is in where people are caught, in the economic abyss.

Harry Belafonte

#22. Love is the creative fire, the inspiration that keeps the torch of progress aflame.

Wilferd Peterson

#23. Our soul, like Mary's body, is to receive God Himself if only we, like her, believe, consent and receive; if only we speak her truly magic word fiat, "let it be." It is the creative word, the word God used to create the universe.

Peter Kreeft

#24. If there was ever a time to create, it is now!

Michele Jennae

#25. Let your creative and imaginative mind run freely; it will take you places you never dreamed of and provide breakthroughs that others once thought were impossible.

Idowu Koyenikan

#26. Anything creative requires a bit of acting,and filling in blanks with imagination.

Christina Westover

#27. I try not to be influenced when it comes to being creative, just in order to sustain my own voice and character. However, I do have many inspirations from the worlds of literature, music, comedy and film.

Doc Brown

#28. Those of fire move about the earth with inspiration and purpose. They are creative, and can consume and be consumed by their desires [ ... ] My father-to-be was of the water and could not find a hold in the banks of earthiness. Water people can easily get lost.

Joy Harjo

#29. Hating skin color is contempt for God's divine creative imagination. Honoring it is appreciation for conscious, beautiful-love-inspired diversity.

T.F. Hodge

#30. Sometimes, you just have to clear your head and get out to see other things. It is very important to be nourished. I love to go to museums and galleries, I like to see theatre, film, dance - anything creative. It doesn't promise you inspiration, but it nourishes your creative soul, and that's good.

Marc Jacobs

#31. We all have 10,000 bad drawings in us. The sooner we get them out the better.

Walt Stanchfield

#32. Help me, Lord, in times when I am uninspired to see things differently.

Jennifer Allwood

#33. Magic is not just for the entertainment, but to inspire people to be creative enough with their lives.

Amit Kalantri

#34. Creative leaders inherently know when rules need to be challenged, and they can see when a more flexible approach should be taken.

John C. Maxwell

#35. If you just had an inspiration at night or with a girl or whatever and you want to talk about it, you don't necessarily want to share it with everybody ... That's the first thing that made me want to go solo; I wanted to talk about my own things, I wanted to try to be creative [in] my own way.

K-Maro

#36. Ideas doesn't make anyone rich, it is what you use it to do that makes you rich.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#37. The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls 'inspiration.'

Leon Trotsky

#38. Take the next little step-the smaller you make it, the more likely you'll take it..

Jill Badonsky

#39. The Arts are not drugs. They are not guaranteed to act when taken. Something as mysterious and capricious as the creative impulse has to be released before they can act.

E. M. Forster

#40. Emotional versatility is the art of making peace with the entire emotional spectrum by honing your capacity to channel various feelings along creative and constructive lines. It is not about controlling or condemning your feelings. It's about conducting your feelings in a self-edifying way.

T.K. Coleman

#41. Reaching a 'creative' state of mind thru positive action is considered preferable to waiting for 'inspiration'.

Minor White

#42. The willingness to be a champion for stupid ideas is the key to greater creativity, innovation, fulfillment, inspiration, motivation and success.

Richie Norton

#43. Authenticity is our natural state of being. The authentic self is a state of being where we are centered, creative, adaptive, and inspired.

Henna Inam

#44. I could write about how I feel when I sing, write and create something from heartbreak, sorrow, sadness or just simply nothingness. How nothingness can become the most beautiful, unexplainable feeling that makes you forget about gravity for an hour.

Charlotte Eriksson

#45. Your thought should be creative and not destructive; it should be full of hope and faith for a more excellent future.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#46. We like to take credit when we get a new idea, as if we originated the idea in our brain, but what we actually did was no less extraordinary: we channeled the idea.

Chris Prentiss

#47. Whether we write lyrics or craft legislation, sell homes or teach classes, design spaces or open franchises, prayer is a critical part of the creative process. Don't just brainstorm; praystorm.

Mark Batterson

#48. Someday she planned to paint he ceiling: Blue, with gold stars on it, whole constellations, and a section of the Milky Way.

Elizabeth Enright

#49. The simple everyday experiences become the doorway to new thoughts and inspirations.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#50. Your education experience, talent intelligence, and financial situations don't matter. The important thing is the direction in which you focus your unique, powerful, creative mind

Mark Allen

#51. Our job in this life is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.

Steven Pressfield

#52. About writing:The trick is to make sure you love what you've produced
to Believe..in order to convince.

Christina Westover

#53. Creativity isn't about avoiding frustration. It's about pushing through and coming out the other side.

Michele Jennae

#54. Writers think with their soul and draft from their heart

Lisa Fantino

#55. Our Nation has a diverse and extremely rich cultural heritage. It is a source of pride and strength to millions of Americans who look to the arts for inspiration, communication and the opportunity for creative self-expression.

Gerald R. Ford

#56. (Ah, lovely adolescence - when the "talented" are officially shunted off from the herd, thus putting the total burden of society's creative dreams on the thin shoulders of a few select souls, while condemning everyone else to live a more commonplace, inspiration-free existence! What a system . . . )

Elizabeth Gilbert

#57. 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

#58. Whenever there is inspiration ... and enthusiasm ... there is a creative empowerment that goes far beyond what a mere person is capable of.

Eckhart Tolle

#59. My creative process involves that old saying: It's 90% perspiration and only 10% inspiration.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#60. The balls it took to proclaim a creative profession, the narcissism.

Lauren Groff

#61. Not in government or force, not in slavery or war, but in the creative, and thereby spiritual, power of freedom, shall our inspiration be found.

F. A. Harper

#62. All too often, when creative people pick out someone else's creative work as an inspiration, what they end up with is very, very far from the original.

Samuel R. Delany

#63. The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.

Aberjhani

#64. An idea is like a spark to creativity, which turns to a wild conflagration of thoughts, burning every ignorance. When the fire burns, the creative power is awake, and comes out to join the ideas in your head to bring out the hidden valuables the world never knew

Michael Bassey Johnson

#65. Entire universes flourish in my mind. Sometimes I get lost in there.

Janey Colbourne

#66. There are really three parts to the creative process. First there is inspiration, then there is the execution, and finally there is the release.

Eddie Van Halen

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

Julieanne O'Connor

#68. Creative thinking encompassed by the Word of God infuses into you the divine ability to turn the seemingly ugly situation around.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#69. Whether it's a painter finding his way each morning to the easel, or a medical researcher returning daily to the laboratory, the routine is as much a part of the creative process as the lightning bolt of inspiration, maybe more.

Twyla Tharp

#70. Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?

Noam Chomsky

#71. First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.

Octavia E. Butler

#72. You made us for yourself, Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you. In this creative restlessness beats and pulsates what is most deeply human - the search for truth, the insatiable need for the good, hunger for freedom, nostalgia for the beautiful, and the voice of conscience.

Pope John Paul II

#73. Musicians have notes. Painters have paint. Writers have words.

Lisa Fantino

#74. To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution.

Steven Pressfield

#75. Two factors thus emerge as requisites of success in the field of creative photography. First, the subject must be photogenic. Second, its re-creation in a photograph must be based upon technical knowledge, guided and supported by artsitic inspiration.

Andreas Feininger

#76. It is the daily task of the creative to be curious and collect dots. The most creative people I know fill their brains, their idea factories, with as much raw material as they can. They have voracious appetites.

David DuChemin

#77. Spend more time doing things that make you forget about the time.

Charlotte Eriksson

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

Joanne Greenberg

#79. We are never more creative than when we are at odds with the world and there is nothing so artistically destructive as comfort. Princess Leia taught me that.

Simon Pegg

#80. Make a point to continually search for a better way of doing things, even when things are going well, to ensure that a better alternative has not been overlooked and to keep your creative talents in practice.

John C. Maxwell

#81. I draw creative juices from everywhere. I'm so visually inspired. I would watch old movies a lot to get inspiration for clothes.

Cindy Meehl

#82. Creative minds doesn't get tired.

Amit Kalantri

#83. Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story.
[A Conversation with Alice Munro, BookBrowse, 1998]

Alice Munro

#84. Creation and Free Will are constantly moving, hand in hand, like children traveling along a path full of impulses and inspirations.Through the use of the Dragonflame philosophy they become superior artistic beings able to enjoy and share the fruits of creative labor.

Lawren Leo

#85. Our first experience of God is so important, we either experience Him as the police guard that wants to punish or as Creative Love that awaits.

Pope Benedict XVI

#86. Violence sometimes may have cleared away obstructions quickly, but it never has proved itself creative.

Albert Einstein

#87. It [doesn't matter] what you look like, where you come from, or what you do for a living. All that matters is that we continue to fan the flame of humanity by living our lives as the ultimate creative expression of who we really are.

Janine Shepherd

#88. Adidas is a very personal inspiration to me. It has enriched my creative life. It's an exchange between different cultures, different ideas, and most of all, it is teamwork.

Yohji Yamamoto

#89. The greatest discovery is self-discovery.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#90. Surrounding yourself with creative, imaginative people is a good strategy for success whether you're an entrepreneur seeking innovation or an artist looking for inspiration.

Harvey MacKay

#91. You can't really do anything creative without a source of inspiration.

J. Tillman

#92. What is hell to a writer? Hell is being too busy to find the time to write or being unable to find the inspiration. Hell is suddenly finding the words but being away from your notebook or typewriter. Hell is when the verses slip away through your fingers and they never return again.

R.M. Engelhardt

#93. Your best creative assets do not occur unless you do a mental shift. You have to be in a positive frame of mind because inspiration is fleeting. I walk to work for inspiration and to clear my mind.

Ron Ben-Israel

#94. I think that creative people, wherever they are, in any field, take inspiration wherever they can find it.

Simon De Pury

#95. The inspiration for my novels comes from the depths of a creative well, based on asking myself questions over and over. I try to write something different each time I sit down to write; I try to surprise the readers.

Nicholas Sparks

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

Irving Stone

#97. File under "Hard Truths": the creative muse is fiction. If you sit around waiting for the right moment to create, you will die waiting.

Antony Johnston

#98. Have a creative day as you contemplate today on ...
Having an idea is not a problem. Identification with the idea creates the problem.

Sri Amma Bhagwan.

#99. Procrastination is a form of punishment

Jill Badonsky

#100. When the creative impulse sweeps over you, grab it. You grab it and honor it and use it, because momentum is a rare gift.

Justina Chen