Creatives Quotes

“Sensitive people care when the world doesn't because we understand waiting to be rescued and no one shows up. We have rescued ourselves, so many times that we have become self taught in the art of compassion for those forgotten.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Create. Not for the money. Not for the fame. Not for the recognition. But for the pure joy of creating something and sharing it.”
― Ernest Barbaric

“When technology takes over every aspect of our lives, we won’t care anymore about the data but poems, songs, paintings and other creative arts.”
― Pooja Agnihotri, 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure

“The reason that online ads are 80% of the time ignored lies in the fact that we have started forgetting creativity when creativity is as important as data”
― Pooja Agnihotri, 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure

“Art is nothing more than creating an emotion in your own form.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forbearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that -- being what it is -- it falls so short of in fact and in deed.”
― Clare Boothe Luce

“I want to keep making things for people to love and give them a good story. Maybe one day, someone'll look at a piece I made, and think about who gave it to them... Or where they bought it. Or who owned it before. Isn't that kind of a magic?”
― Kay O'Neill, The Tea Dragon Society

“Creativity is just about connecting things. A whole lot of nonsense put together, and diluted with a creative passion can eventually make sense. Keep thinking. Exploring. Keep trying out new ways and methods of doing things and just when you least expect, you may stumble on that next great world-changing idea that will make all the difference.”
― Chinonye J. Chidolue

“Passion is creativity on fire”
― Suzy Davies

“To choose to be alone is to bait the trap, to create a space the demons cannot resist entering. And that's the good news; the demons that enter can be named, written about, and tamed through the miracle of the healing word, the miracle of art, the miracle of silence.”
― Fenton Johnson, At the Center of All Beauty: Solitude and the Creative Life

“Despair and disappointment are the parent of countless inspired, inspiring, triumphant creations”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“Creative energy can be a powerful force towards making an impact and help us to become our best possible selves.”
― Germany Kent

“Life without creativity, is life without color.”
― Corletia Dunlap Banks

“Dreams are the museum for artists.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Oneironaut’s Diary

“Everything of significance you need to know about an artist hides, in plain sight, in their work.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“make YOUR art, do the stuff that only you can do...but the one thing you have that nobody else has, is you. Your voice, you remind, your story, your vision - so write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

The moment that you feel that just possibly you're walking down the street naked, exposing too much of your heart and your mind and what exists on the inside, showing too much of yourself, that's the moment you may be starting to get it right.”
― Neil Gaiman, Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World

“Bringing a novel to light - revealing the form and cadence, shadows and demeanor of a protagonist constructed from thin air - linking scenes and synchronicity across translucent time - holding up a glass brimming with chilled, never-tasted liquid, then sipping from it with intoxicated focus - allowing lovers to make a perilous mess of things, fall apart and nakedly come back together again - looking through conjured windows deep into someone else’s snow-bound solitude, feeling utterly alone yet being all-connected: this is not writing. It’s world-creating.

It’s raw, exposed dreaming. It’s humbling. At first too personal and intimate to share, it evolves like a child into a life of its own until I have no say in what comes next.

It’s what I wake at 4am to say Yes to, the spinning possibility of a new story relentlessly commanding me to write it down so it can whirl in your experience.”
― Laurie Perez

“As artists, we are constantly becoming.”
― Creativly, A Passion and a Dream: Inspiring Stories of Actors, Writers, et. al., on the Eve of Their Big Break

“What is the beauty of a thing if others do not take pleasure in it.”
― Gerald Mills

“Hollywood keeps recycling what worked back then, what worked back when, but nothing new. I believe their breakout hit has been written. Written either by me? Written either by you? Indie writers, authors, and creatives can, again, be Hollywood's salvation, but Hollywood must first get a fucking clue.”
― A.K. Kuykendall

“Your dream is the mole behind your ear, that chip in your front tooth, your freckles.
It's the thing that makes you special, but not the thing that makes you great.

The courage in trying, the passion in living, and the acknowledgement and appreciation of the beauty happening around you does that.”
― Jason Reynolds, For Every One

“Crooners and light chatter artists who now pollute the air with wisecracks and silly giggles, will go the way of all light timbers, and their places will be taken by real artists who interpret carefully planned programmes which have been designed to service the minds of men, as well as provide entertainment.”
― Napoleon Hill

“I dream in living colors, then I wake up and create it!”
― Sanjo Jendayi

“Creativity can never be happy, as it feeds on what the world is missing.”
― Cornelia-Summers Lai

“Art is your thought leaping.
Art is your mind dancing.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“To create art is to dance to the tune of your he[art].”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“A passionate person creates, not to gain admiration, but for the sheer joy of creating.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“Please keep an idea journal.”
― Robin S. Baker

“There is a thin line between being a creative and being crazy. Many creatives ended up in the psych ward or heavily medicated... They only needed one person to believe in their visions.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“I never chose to be an artist, it chose me. It would have been easier to have a normal job, but I didn’t want easier. I wanted authenticity. I wanted to honor my heart-songs.”
― Vanessa de Largie