The Creative Calling and Chase Jarvis Quotes

Pro Photographer, Entrepreneur, Author

Chase Jarvis is a master creator, professional photographer turned mega successful entrepreneur, and author. As cofounder of the thriving education platform for creators, CreativeLive, Chase is passionate about creativity and elevating creators. His new book, Creative Calling, is a must read for any aspiring, amateur, or pro creator.

Actually, his book is for any human yearning for a more fulfilling and creative life.

One of the OGs—original gangsters—of sharing content freely online, amidst loads of ridicule from his peers, Chase lives his talk. His success story is what happened when he followed his creative heart. Chase speaks from the experience of his own journey of following his heart as well as countless others he’s helped through Creative Live.

CreativeLive and the book, Creative Calling are the fairy tales come true of what happens when you combine creativity, grit, determination and passion.

Keep coming back to your creative calling. It’s your north star. Heed it and let it guide you.

The creative call is always present, no matter how faint or far off the path you wander.
~Chase Jarvis, cofounder CreativeLive, author, Creative Calling, b.1971

Creative Calling Book – A Must Read

We’ll get to the Chase Jarvis quotes shortly, but first, please do yourself a favor and read this first. Creators—and doubters—no matter where you are in your creative journey, this book will deliver the inspiration and information you need to step into your creative aspirations.

Creative Calling: Establish a Daily Practice, Infuse Your World with Meaning, and Succeed in Work + Life , by Chase Jarvis, is a must read for creators.
~LeAura Alderson, cofounder iCreateDaily.com®

Not Only for Creators

Like Chase, at iCreateDaily, we believe in the power of creativity to transform lives. Toward that, I believe that Creative Calling isn’t just for creative types, but rather, it’s for humans interested in living happier more fulfilling lives.

Whatever your area of interest, this book will fill your heart with the desire and confidence to pursue your creative calling… even if you didn’t know it still lived within you.

Chase makes the point that every human is born creative. If you don’t feel that you are, it’s just that your creative side has been hushed, shushed, stuffed and neglected such that you’ve lost touch with that most essential side of you. Time to let him or her out.

I bought the audiobook version and as soon as I started listening, I had stopped it so many times to run and write down a quote from it, that I ended up buying the Kindle book too. That way I could finally just enjoy listening to the audiobook while getting ready in the morning or walking the dogs, without needing to stop and bookmark the quote.

So a ‘Chase Jarvis Quotes’ article and Creative Calling book review were inevitable. Hopefully, you’re a serious learner ardent about personal growth and passionate about your art, in which case you probably read many books each year.

Ask yourself how you would truly like to express yourself creatively… everyday for the rest of your life.
~Chase Jarvis, cofounder CreativeLive, author, Creative Calling, b.1971

The Creator’s Creed

Creative Calling, could be the mantra, and the creative bible for every creator. Further, it should be assigned reading and discussion in classrooms and for anyone in pursuit of a creative career. You autodidactic learners, assign it to yourselves!

Think you’re not creative, or not good enough? Think that all artists are starving and you can’t have a career related to your creative passions? Read Creative Calling; Chase Jarvis debunks that myth.

Creators, gift this to your creative friends and family as well as those you know who think they’re not creative. You know the power of art and creativity to transform lives, and this could turn on the faucet to the holy grail of creativity for them.

‘Creative Calling‘ by Chase Jarvis is a must read book for anyone interested in living a more creative, happy and fulfilling life.
~LeAura Alderson, cofounder iCreateDaily.com®

Chase Jarvis Quotes

The majority of these Chase Jarvis quotes came from his latest book, titled Creative Calling. Even if you think you’re not the creative type, this may have you questioning that belief in ways that will ignite passions you didn’t know you had.

“No matter where you are today, you can design a creative and fulfilling life for yourself.”
~Chase Jarvis, cofounder CreativeLive, author, Creative Calling, b.1971

“Movement is a creativity catalyst.”
~Chase Jarvis, Creative Calling

“Creativity is your birthright.”
~Chase Jarvis, Creative Calling

“We are literally creating machines.. That is what we do.”
~Chase Jarvis, cofounder CreativeLive

“Establishing a creative practice is the foundation of whatever it is you seek.”
~Chase Jarvis, cofounder CreativeLive, author, b.1971

“Our creative calling is our highest call.”
~Chase Jarvis, author

“Creativity is generous, it’s life changing and mind altering and it’s practical as hell.”
~Chase Jarvis, cofounder CreativeLive, author, b.1971

Change

It’s only by creating in small ways every day that we come to understand that we can create big changes in our lives when we desire or need them most.
~Chase Jarvis, cofounder CreativeLive, author, b.1971

Create Daily

“In the act of creating on a regular basis, you have agency… even small things each day.”
~Chase Jarvis, cofounder CreativeLive, author, Creative Calling, b.1971

“In creating small things on a daily basis, you’ve just made something, and in the making of something even in that small way…it’s the same muscle we use to make our life.”
~Chase Jarvis, cofounder CreativeLive, author, b.1971

Creative Work

“My experience says that if you put out a lot of personal work that’s good, it tends to attract high dollar commercial work. But to be clear – I don’t create art to get high dollar projects, I do high dollar projects so I can create more art.”
~Chase Jarvis, photographer, entrepreneur, creator of CreativeLive, as featured on Forbes.

Tap into those painful areas—that’s where the magic is waiting, the authentic, vulnerable parts that are jet fuel for your most creative work.
~Chase Jarvis, cofounder CreativeLive, author, b.1971

“Pros go to work whether they’re inspired or not.”
~Chase Jarvis, author, Creative Calling

“Pursuing your creative calling is effortless hard work.”
~Chase Jarvis, cofounder CreativeLive

If you’ve spent years, months, or even a few days creating something, why wouldn’t you invest an equivalent amount of time in finding an audience?
~Chase Jarvis, cofounder-CreativeLive, author, b.1971

Do You!

Life gets so much easier when you decide to play your own game. Don’t just try to be better. Be different.
~Chase Jarvis, cofounder CreativeLive, author, Creative Calling, b.1971

Your story is unique, weird, particular. When you share your truth with others, they connect with a universal truth within the particular. That’s the real reason it resonates with them.
~Chase Jarvis, CreativeLive, author, Creative Calling, b.1971

“You cannot stand out and fit in at the same time. Do you.”
~Chase Jarvis, cofounder CreativeLive, author, Creative Calling

Fear and Failure

Fear never goes away when we’re trying something new. Insecurity and discomfort are integral to the growth process—to creating art and creating yourself.
~Chase Jarvis, cofounder CreativeLive, author, b.1971

“In the moments of self doubt, adopt a new mindset: stop avoiding the things you don’t want and start chasing the things you do.“
~Chase Jarvis, founder- CreativeLive, excerpt from Creative Calling

You learn to trust your fear and let it guide you.
~Chase Jarvis, author– Creative Calling

Gardening Quote

Gardening is the embodiment of creative expression.

You’re given constraints, a plot of land, the specific climate, certain conditions of light and soil… it’s up to you what to do with them. There is no “right garden”; only the one that you choose to design, plant and tend.

If that isn’t an art form, what is?

~Chase Jarvis, cofounder CreativeLive, author, Creative Calling, b.1971

SEE ALSO: A Garden Metaphor and Gardening Memes

Goals, Action and Habits Quotes

Action is identity, you become what you do.
You’ve got to do the verb to become the noun.
~Chase Jarvis, author, Creative Calling

Prioritizing creativity elevates everything that you do.
~Chase Jarvis, author, Creative Calling, b1971

The more you narrow your creative focus, the faster you will learn and the more effective your work will become.
Breadth is only helpful when you’re exploring.
~Chase Jarvis, cofounder CreativeLive, author, b.1971

“Creativity isn’t a skill, it’s a habit… a practice.”
~Chase Jarvis, cofounder CreativeLive, b.1971

The goal isn’t to create a masterpiece; the goals is to make a masterpiece of your life.”
~Chase Jarvis, founder-CreativeLive, excerpt from Creative Calling

“Creativity is a practice, not a product. If you use it you will get stronger.”
~Chase Jarvis, cofounder CreativeLive, author – Creative Calling

Happiness and Creativity

“Creativity is fundamental to our wellbeing… our survival, but also in pleasure, in joy.”
~Chase Jarvis, cofounder CreativeLive, author-Creative Calling, b.1971

Creativity is not an indulgence or a luxury, It’s required to thrive.
~Chase Jarvis, cofounder CreativeLive, author-Creative Calling, b.1971

Intuition

“Your intuition provides directions, not destinations.”
~Chase Jarvis, CreativeLive, author, Creative Calling

Life and Creativity

Creativity it is a life amplifier.
~Chase Jarvis, CreativeLive

You don’t have to postpone creativity until you’re 100% ready, or until conditions line up perfectly. Those things will never happen. Life is messy and without creativity, it’s incomplete.
~Chase Jarvis, cofounder CreativeLive, author, Creative Calling, b.1971

“Creativity is your birthright.”
~Chase Jarvis, Creative Calling

“The creative muscle is the most powerful thing a human being can do.”
~Chase Jarvis, cofounder CreativeLive, author, Creative Calling, b.1971

“Creativity is not a nice-to-have, it’s a must-have.”
~Chase Jarvis, cofounder CreativeLive

Manifestation and Creativity

“In creating small things on a daily basis, you’ve just made something, and in the making of something even in that small way…it’s the same muscle we use to make our life.”
~Chase Jarvis, cofounder-CreativeLive, author, b.1971

It’s time to face reality—then bend it to your will.
~Chase Jarvis, cofounder-CreativeLive, author, b.1971

Be the hero of your own life. Walk your own path. When obstacles arise, go over, under or around them. When you lose your way, listen for the call. Your heart will always lead you.
~Chase Jarvis, cofounder CreativeLive, author, Creative Calling, b.1971

Rebellion is always a reaction. That means it’s just another form of control—you are controlled by the thing you’re rebelling against. It’s not a choice; it’s a trap.
~Chase Jarvis, cofounder CreativeLive, author, Creative Calling, b.1971

It’s only through developing the capacity to create something that we can create everything.
~Chase Jarvis, cofounder CreativeLive, author, Creative Calling, b.1971

Mindset and Creativity

“Pursue your own path, wherever it leads. Develop the skills to be successful in this pursuit. In the moments of self doubt, adopt a new mindset: stop avoiding the things you don’t want and start chasing the things you do. The goal isn’t to create a masterpiece; the goals is to make a masterpiece of your life.”
~Chase Jarvis, founder-CreativeLive, excerpt from Creative Calling

in Pursuit of Creative Passion

“Working on what you love is like salt, it makes everything taste better.”
~Chase Jarvis, cofounder CreativeLive, b.1971

“You can suck at photography and love it… and why wouldn’t that be enough?”
~Chase Jarvis-cofounder-CreativeLive, author, photographer, b.1971

SOURCE: Interview with Tom Bilyeu – ImpactTheory

“To rise up, you must stand out, and proudly.”
~Chase Jarvis, cofounder-CreativeLive, author, b.1971

There is only one you. You are the highest value you can possibly contribute.
~Chase Jarvis, cofounder-CreativeLive, author, b.1971

We’re entering a new era where creative thinking will be the most important, most valuable skill anyone can possess.
~Chase Jarvis, cofounder CreativeLive, author, Creative Calling, b.1971

“Pursue your own path, wherever it leads. Develop the skills to be successful in this pursuit.”
~Chase Jarvis, founder-CreativeLive, excerpt from Creative Calling

“It takes hard work and persistence to achieve any goal, so why not reach for the stars?”
~Chase Jarvis, cofounder CreativeLive, author, Creative Calling, b.1971

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