30 Inspiring Quotes for Creative Minds
The creative process can be tough. Luckily, there are plenty of ways to reignite the flame of inspiration. Here are 30 inspiring quotes for creative minds.
Civilization, as we know it, is about 6,000 years old, and one great thing about that is the number of great minds that have shared their thoughts on creativity and living well. No matter how stressful times are or the hardships one may be going through, there is comfort in looking back on the wisdom that helped people before us.
“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”
– Ayn Rand
“Creativity is just connecting things.”
– Steve Jobs
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
– Albert Einstein
“An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.”
– Edwin Land
“Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.”
– Gail Sheehy
“Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?”
– Sun Tzu
“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.”
– Carl Sagan
“Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”
– Thomas Jefferson
“It’s always too early to quit.”
– Norman Vincent Peale
“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”
– Pablo Picasso
“The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.”
– Ernest Hemingway
“This is how you do it: You sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until it’s done. It’s that easy, and that hard.”
– Neil Gaiman
“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.”
– Albert Einstein
“The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.”
– Pablo Picasso
“Creativity is intelligence having fun.”
– Albert Einstein
“The first draft of anything is sh*t.”
– Ernest Hemingway
“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
– Stephen King
“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”
– Andy Warhol
“Have no fear of perfection; you’ll never reach it.”
– Salvador Dali
“The most creative people are motivated by the grandest of problems that are presented before them.”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson
“The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul.”
– Dieter F. Uchtdorf
“Creativity doesn’t wait for that perfect moment. It fashions its own perfect moments out of ordinary ones.”
– Bruce Garrabrandt
“Everything you can imagine is real.”
– Pablo Picasso
“To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.”
– Kurt Vonnegut
“Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.”
– Mary Lou Cook
“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have”
– Maya Angelou
“Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has been cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience”
– Henry David Thoreau
“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.”
– Vincent Van Gogh
“Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”
– William Shakespeare
“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 must simply do things.”
– Ray Bradbury
Zach is an international writer, photographer, filmmaker, martial artist, and creator of Creative Enso, the Zen art of creative living. His goal is to empower and inspire creatives to live healthier, happier, and more creative lifestyles.
