Creative Artists Quotes

• Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

  Twyla Tharp

  Music, Dance, Running

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• You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Positive, Art

  "Conversations with Maya Angelou". Book by Jeffrey M. Elliot, 1989.

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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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• To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Art, Practice, Soul

  "Finding Soul in LA: Five Creative Adventures in the City" by Roxie Sarhangi, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 18, 2014.

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• The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

  Robert Hughes

  Inspirational, Motivational, Art

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• To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Inspirational, Courage, Art

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• The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

  Sylvia Plath

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.545, Anchor

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• 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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• Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

  Edwin Land

  Creativity, Creative, Stupidity

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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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• You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

  Jack London

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

  Jack London (2015). “Jack London on Adventure: Words of Wisdom from an Expert Adventurer”, p.5, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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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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  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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• The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

  Pablo Picasso

  Life, Beautiful, Art

  Elizabeth Cowling, Pablo Picasso (2002). “Picasso: style and meaning”, Phaidon Press

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• The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.

  Pablo Picasso

  Life, Motivational, Beautiful

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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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  It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.87, BookBaby

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• Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

  Andre Gide

  Spiritual, Art, Creative Collaboration

  "The Millionaire Rig Veda" by Timothy James Brearton, (p. 40), 2012.

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• Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.

  Christina Rossetti

  Inspirational, Work, Women

  Christina Georgina Rossetti, Maria Keaton (2004). “Prose Works of Christina Rossetti”, Thoemmes Pr

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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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• Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.69

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• An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Art, Failure, Creative

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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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  The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.331, Princeton University Press

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

  Albert Einstein

  Art, Memorable, Creativity

  Albert Einstein, Helen Dukas (1981). “Albert Einstein, the Human Side: New Glimpses from His Archives”, p.77, Princeton University Press

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