Artists And Creativity Quotes - Page 2

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.

John Updike

Motivational, Inspiring, Education

John Updike (2013). “Picked-Up Pieces: Essays”, p.22, Random House

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Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

George Bernard Shaw

Inspirational, Art, Creativity

George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.3148, e-artnow

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Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

e. e. cummings

Life, Confidence, Believe

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An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

James Whistler

Tattoo, Art, Creativity

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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

Life, Sad, Writing

Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.85, Anchor

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Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.

Dee Hock

Creativity, Creative, Mind

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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

Oscar Wilde

Art, Business, Acting

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.755, GENERAL PRESS

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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Pablo Picasso

Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.

Vincent Van Gogh

Life, Beautiful, Art

Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

Robert Henri

Inspiring, Art, Creativity

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Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.

Ray Bradbury

Creativity, Thinking, Creative

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you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.

Stephen King

Positive, Fear, Cheer Up

Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.275, Simon and Schuster

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Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.

Pablo Picasso

Art, Creative, Stealing

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Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

Pablo Picasso

Fashion, Art, Writing

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Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

Pablo Picasso

Art, Simplicity, Unnecessary

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For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

Vincent Van Gogh

Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance

Letter to Theo van Gogh from The Hague, www.webexhibits.org. October 22, 1882.

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If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.

Edward Hopper

Art, Creative, Would Be

Ray Spangenburg, Kit Moser, Edward Hopper, Diane Moser (2002). “Edward Hopper: The Life of an Artist”, Enslow Pub Incorporated

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Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

Erich Fromm

Letting Go, Spiritual, Courage

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Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Edwin Land

Creativity, Creative, Stupidity

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You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.

Ray Bradbury

Thinking Of You, Writing, Creativity

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Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

Ray Bradbury

Thinking Of You, Creativity, Self

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Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

Thomas Merton

Art, Fools Day, Finding Yourself

Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.35, Shambhala Publications

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Action is the foundational key to all success.

Pablo Picasso

Inspirational, Positive, Success

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Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Scott Adams

Love, Inspirational, Life

Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.438, Penguin

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