Quotes are wonderful tools for ideas, reflection, motivation, inspiration, and creative prompts. In fact quotes as conceptual prompts are our favorite tool for encouraging intuitive art. So we had fun putting together some of our favorite creativity quotes to help stoke your creative juices.
Creativity is divinity expressing itself through you and with you.
You may wish to use one creativity quote per day to help you achieve a creative goal through daily inspiration. However you choose to read this, we hope you enjoy it as much as we are enjoying creating it!
“One thing is for certain, the more you immerse in creativity, the more creative you become.”
~LeAura Alderson, writer, editor, creator iCreateDaily.com®
The Greek God of Creativity – Hephaestus
The bulk of the creativity quotes are in the section right below this one. But first, we enjoyed learning about the profound message behind the story of Hephaestus and thought you might as well.
The Greek God of creativity, Hephaestus rules over the forge, creating both beautiful jewelry and powerful weapons.
Hephaestus is the only Olympian of the 12 Greek Gods who is not physically perfect, and yet he does not allow his infirmity to stop him from making art. Instead, he uses it to transform.
The Message of Hephaestus
Hephaestus is lame from injuries inflicted by his own family. Yet instead of wallowing in pain and pity, he creates both beauty, as symbolized by jewelry, and power, as symbolized by beautifully crafted weapons.
Hephaestus appears to channel his brokenness into the clever creation and cultivation of his craft. He doesn’t let his imperfections prevent him from birthing boldness and beauty in the world.
And neither should we. This is the artist’s “heroes journey”. To create something from nothing… and good from bad.
“Hephaestus shows us that our strongest and best work can grow out of that very imperfection, that our very brokenness is one of the strongest tools available to us. Out of that brokenness the most beautiful art can grow.“
~Allison Stieger, mythologist, transformational consultant
Creativity Quotes
“Creativity is contagious, pass it on.”
~Albert Einstein, theoretical physicist, 1879-1955
Abundance and Creativity Quotes
“Creation and creativity comes from an attitude of abundance.”
~Ryan Daniel Moran, founder-Capitalism.com
“When you create scared you get scarcity. When you create from abundance you end up getting abundance.”
~Ryan Daniel Moran, founder – Capitalism.com
Accountability and Creativity
“As a creative person, you need to be both parent and child to yourself, within yourself. You need to be a child, free to create without worry, and also a parent, being accountable to responsibilities.”
~Danny Passman, CryBaby-Media.com, on GTD Podcast, Ep 44
Achievement and Creativity Quotes
A creative [wo]man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
~Ayn Rand, Russian-American philosopher, author Atlas Shrugged, 1905-1982
EDITOR’S NOTE: As of this writing on 10/31/20, I just discovered that Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand audiobook is currently free through Amazon Prime or Audible members (not sure which). It’s an epic novel and well produced audiobook normally retailing for over $40.
Action and Creativity Quotes
“The word create is a verb. It’s an action. Creativity is best thought of in the same way – it’s something you can use while involved in an activity, like painting, writing, debating or dancing.”
~Scott Berkun, American author, speaker
“You do not need to have it all figured out to create. Your intention turns the key in the ignition of creativity, your actions propel you forward.”
~LeAura Alderson, writer, editor, creator iCreateDaily.com®
Creativity is the power to reject the past, to change the status quo, and to seek new potential. Aside from using one’s imagination… creativity is the power to act.
~Ai Weiwei, Chinese contemporary artist, activist, b.8/28/1957
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.
~Ray Bradbury, American author and screenwriter, 1920-2012
“Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.”
~Mason Cooley, American aphorist, professor, 1927-2002
“You can’t wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club”
~Jack London, American novelist, journalist, 1876-1916
“The first stroke opens the door.”
Sharon Price Campbell, former art teacher
Alchemy and Creativity Quotes
“There is no skill more practical, powerful and phenomenal than the discovery and realization that we can create a better life through the thoughts we choose to focus on.”
~LeAura Alderson, cofounder – iCreateDaily.com®
“Artists are alchemists of the medium of emotions. Creativity is the eternal flame of the soul that can forge failures to fortune and woes to wins.”
~LeAura Alderson, writer, editor, creator iCreateDaily.com®
“The ultimate discovery for creators is that you are the alchemist of your life… your ultimate creation. Transform negatives to positives… pain to power… bad to beauty and watch your life soar.”
~LeAura Alderson, writer, editor, creator iCreateDaily.com®
Anger and Creativity Quotes
“You can’t be curious and angry at the same time.”
~Catherine Hoke, founder-Defy Ventures NPO, author, speaker
Anxiety and Creativity
“Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out.“
~David Duchovny, producer, director, actor, novelist, singer-songwriter, b.8/7/1960
Art and Creativity Quotes
“Out of that brokenness the most beautiful art can grow.“
~Allison Stieger, mythologist, transformational consultant
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
~Scott Adams, Creator-Dilbert comic strip, b.6/8/1957
“Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.”
~Victor Pinchuk, Ukrainian oligarch, 12/14/1960
“Creativity is limitless. Artists naturally expand their creative mediums as they grow. The artist is a channel for creativity and not limited by the medium.“
~LeAura Alderson, writer, editor, creator iCreateDaily.com®
“Every human has four endowments – self-awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.”
~Stephen R. Covey, entrepreneur, author, speaker, 1932-2012
Artist Quotes
“The artist is a conduit between divinity and humanity. The more conscious her creations, the greater the positive impact.“
~LeAura Alderson, writer, editor, creator iCreateDaily.com®
Beauty and Creativity Quotes
“How blessed the artist who spends time bringing beauty and imagination to life. Brain waves sync with heart and mind and open a channel for joy to flow!“
~LeAura Alderson, creator iCreateDaily.com®
CREATE IT
~LeAura Alderson, writer, editor, creator iCreateDaily.com®
If you don’t see beauty, create it.
Create the love you wish to feel…
the beauty you wish to see…
the smile you wish to know.
Blocks – Creative Blocks Quotes
“Creative Block? Not sure what to create? Just start something. Creating, warms the engine of slumbering imagination just waiting to be put to work.“
~LeAura Alderson, cofounder – iCreateDaily.com®
“That willingness to surrender preconceived notions was key to his [Da Vinci’s] creativity.”
SOURCE: Book on Leonardo Da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
~Walter Isaacson, author, journalist, professor, b.5/20/1952
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
~Arthur C. Clarke, author, futurist
“Creative block is the consequence of avoiding the truth. And when you pierce the truth, it flows.”
~Scott Belsky, Serial entrepreneur, author, investor, founder-Behance, b.4/18/1980
Change and Creativity Quotes
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
~Buckminster Fuller, architect, author, inventor, futurist, 1895-1983
Comfort Zone Quotes
“The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity.”
~Dan Stevens, English actor, b.10/10/1982
Conscious Creation
“Creators meet themselves and make themselves through the act of creating.”
~LeAura Alderson, writer, editor, creator iCreateDaily.com®
“The point of life is to expand love through conscious creation. To create is to love, and to love is to birth beauty into being.”
~LeAura Alderson, cofounder iCreateDaily.com®
Contribution
“What people contribute to the world around them has everything to do with how they engage with the world within them.”
~Sir Ken Robinson, arts education advisor, speaker, author, b.3/4/1950
Courage and Creativity Quotes
“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.”
~Erich Fromm, psychologist, philosopher, 1900-1980
Creation Quotes
“When you are born in a world you don’t fit in; it is because you were born to help create a new one.”
~author unknown
The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before.
~Neil Gaiman, English author, b.11/10/1960
“To create is to pluck petals from the infinite lotus of your heart and offer them to the world.”
~LeAura Alderson, writer, editor, creator iCreateDaily.com®
“Accept what is. Release what isn’t. Create what must be.”
~Andréa Balt, writer, author, entrepreneur
Creativity Quotes
“Creativity is a renewable resource. The more we use it the more there is of it.”
~LeAura Alderson, writer, editor, creator iCreateDaily.com®
“Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing.”
~Edward de Bono, psychologist, philosopher, author, b.5/19/1933
“Creativity stoked daily, opens the gates to an infinitely creative universe seeking expression.”
~LeAura Alderson, cofounder iCreateDaily.com®
“There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life.”
~Sophia Loren, lauded Italian actress author, b.9/20/1934
“Creating opens the coloring box of your heart and spills brightness into dark places.”
~LeAura Alderson,