105 Best Quotes About Creating To Inspire Your Inner Artist

At times when we are on the verge of creating our best piece of art, pouring our heart and soul in the process, we might just need that last nudge to make it perfect.

These quotes by some of the biggest names from various creative fields might help you find that missing piece for your own creation. Art is, after all, all about inspiration.

Nothing should restrict you when it comes to creativity. There are no rules to be followed, and you don't create art specifically for a certain audience. Your creation is your thoughts put together in the form of art for others to witness and appreciate.

We can use all kinds of inspiration to stimulate our creativity, including inspirational quotes. That is why we have gathered a list of inspirational quotes about creativity to inspire your art and design creation.

If you love these inspirational quotes about creativity, why not check out these art quotes for kids and painting quotes for more famous quotes about art and design.

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Albert Einstein Quotes About Creativity

Albert Einstein has offered us plenty of inspirational quotes about creativity. Which of these inspirational quotes from Albert Einstein will inspire your newest creation?

1. "A person who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."

-Albert Einstein.

2. "A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future."

-Albert Einstein.

3. "Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better."

-Albert Einstein.

4. "It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."

-Albert Einstein.

5. "The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind."

-Albert Einstein.

6. "I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination."

-Albert Einstein.

7. "Know where to find the information and how to use it. That's the secret of success."

-Albert Einstein.

8. "The important thing is to not stop questioning."

-Albert Einstein.

9. "A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity."

-Albert Einstein.

10. "Creativity is the residue of time wasted."

-Albert Einstein.

11. "Creativity is intelligence having fun."

-Albert Einstein.

12. "Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions."

-Albert Einstein.

13. "Curiosity has its own reason for existing."

-Albert Einstein.

14. "Creativity is contagious. Pass it on."

-Albert Einstein.

15. "Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."

-Albert Einstein.

16. "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."

-Albert Einstein.

17. "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them."

-Albert Einstein.

18. "If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it."

-Albert Einstein.

19. "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."

-Albert Einstein.

20. "I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking."

-Albert Einstein.

Inspirational Quotes About Creating Change

These inspirational quotes show us exactly why change is one of the most important things that we are creating every day.

21. "There is nothing permanent except change."

-Heraclitus.

22. "True life is lived when tiny changes occur."

-Leo Tolstoy.

23. "Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."

-James Baldwin.

24. "Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change."

-Wayne W. Dyer.

25. "All great changes are preceded by chaos."

-Deepak Chopra.

26. "I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination."

-Jimmy Dean.

27. "Change is inevitable. Growth is optional."

-John Maxwell.

28. "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

-Nelson Mandela.

29. "You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone."

-Roy T. Bennett.

30. "Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever."

-Keri Russell.

31. "To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."

-Winston Churchill.

32. "The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance."

-Nathaniel Branden.

33. "If you do not change direction, you might end up where you are heading."

-Lao Tzu.

34. "When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves."

-Viktor E. Frankl.

35. "The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new."

36. "All things are difficult before they are easy."

-Thomas Fuller.

37. "If you don't use your power for positive change, you are indeed part of the problem."

-Coretta Scott King.

38. "The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance."

-Alan Watts.

39. "The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."

-Steve Jobs.

40. "The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude."

-Oprah Winfrey.

Famous Quotes About Creating Art

The experience of creating art is a truly magical one. Celebrate your latest creation with these inspirational quotes about art and design.

41. "Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art."

-Andy Warhol.

42. "Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity."

-Maya Angelou.

43. "Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."

-Edgar Degas.

44. "I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment."

-David Rockefeller.

45. "Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change."

-Barbara Januszkiewicz.

46. "The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery."

-Francis Bacon.

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

-Andre Gide.

48. "Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it."

-Bertolt Brecht.

49. "Art is the stored honey of the human soul."

-Theodore Dreiser.

50. "I am seeking. I am striving. I am in it with all my heart."

-Vincent van Gogh.

51. "In art, what we want is the certainty that one spark of original genius shall not be extinguished."

-Mary Cassatt.

52. "The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel."

-Piet Mondrian.

53. "The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson.

54. "Art is magical, but it’s not magic. It’s a neurological product, and we can study this neurological product the same way we study other complex processes such as language."

-Charles Limb.

55. "Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it."

-Ai Weiwei.

56. "The artist has one function–to affirm and glorify life."

-W. Edward Brown.

57. "I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for."

-Georgia O’Keeffe.

58. "A work of art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t art at all."

-Paul Cézanne.

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

-Thomas Merton.

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

-Henry Ward Beecher.

Inspirational Quotes About Creativity

The experience of creating something is truly magical, as shown by these inspirational quotes about creativity. It is hard to imagine creativity quotes as inspiring as these.

61. "A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art."

-Paul Cezanne.

62. "There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns."

-Edward de Bono.

63. "Creativity is more than just being different... Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity."

-Charles Mingus.

64. "Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you're a human being, you feel, you suffer."

-Marilyn Monroe.

65. "Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons."

-Al Hirschfeld.

66. "Creativity is seeing something that doesn't exist already. You need to find out how you can bring it into being and that way be a playmate with God."

-Michele Shea.

67. "It is only when we are no longer fearful that we begin to create."

-J. M. W. Turner.

68. "Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last, you create what you will."

-George Bernard Shaw.

69. "Creativity itself doesn't care at all about results - the only thing it craves is the process."

-Elizabeth Gilbert.

70. "If you as a designer don’t believe in your design and don't see it beyond the context of the film but as a real creature in a real world then how can you expect the audience to believe it?"

-Peter Jackson.

71. "It's impossible to explain creativity. It's like asking a bird, 'How do you fly?' You just do."

-Eric Jerome Dickey.

72. "Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working."

-Pablo Picasso.

73. "Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true, but its father is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife."

-Jonathan Schattke.

74. "Creativity can solve almost any problem."

-George Lois.

75. "Every artist was first an amateur."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson.

76. "Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self."

-Erich Fromm.

77. "Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual."

-Arthur Koestler.

78. "I started painting as a hobby when I was little. I didn’t know I had any talent. I believe talent is just a pursued interest. Anybody can do what I do."

-Bob Ross.

79. "Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, the just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while."

-Steve Jobs.

80. "A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others."

-Salvador Dali.

Famous Quotes About Creativity And Art

Here are some amazing art quotes about creativity and art for those who love creating and turning an idea into reality.

81. "The most important thing about intellectual property vs. creative expression is that copyright law was created not to stifle creativity but to encourage creativity."

-Shepard Fairey.

82. "If you want creativity, take a zero off your budget. If you want sustainability, take off two zeros."

-Jaime Lerner.

83. "Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you’re passionate about something, then you’re more willing to take risks."

-Yo-Yo Ma.

84. "Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work."

-Rita Mae Brown.

85. "Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist."

-René Magritte.

86. "The artist never entirely knows — We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark."

-Agnes de Mille.

87. "The reason that art is valuable is precisely why I can't tell you how to do it. If there were a map, there'd be no art, because art is the act of navigating without a map."

-Seth Godin.

88. "Creativity is an energy. It's a precious energy, and it's something to be protected. A lot of people take for granted that they're a creative person, but I know from experience, feeling it in myself, it is a magic; it is an energy."

-Ava DuVernay.

89. "Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make."

-Bruce Lee.

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

-Kurt Vonnegut.

91. "Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse."

-Lou Dorfsman.

92. "Creativity belongs to the artist in each of us. To create means to relate. The root meaning of the word art is 'to fit together' and we all do this every day. Not all of us are painters but we are all artists."

-Corita Kent.

93. "To copy the truth can be a good thing, but to invent the truth is better, much better."

-Giuseppe Verdi.

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

-Robert Henri.

95. "The true use of art is, first, to cultivate the artist’s own spiritual nature."

-George Inness.

96. "Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found."

-James Russell Lowell.

97. "Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It's a gift to the world and every being in it. Don't cheat us of your contribution."

-Steven Pressfield.

98. "I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know."

-Jean Houston.

99. "When I say artist I mean the one who is building things… some with a brush – some with a shovel – some choose a pen."

-Jackson Pollock.

100. "Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits."

-Twyla Tharp.

102. "Creativity is bound up in our ability to find new ways around old problems."

-Martin Seligman.

103. "Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous."

-Bill Moyers.

104. "The whole culture is telling you to hurry, while the art tells you to take your time. Always listen to the art."

-Junot Diaz.

105. "Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun."

-Mary Lou Cook.

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