ART / CREATIVITY QUOTES

The most visible creators I know are those artists whose medium is life itself . . . They are the artists of being alive

– J. Stone

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

– Joseph Chilton Pearce

So you see the imagination needs moodling: long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.

– Brenda Ueland

Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones of genius.

– Elbert Hubbard

If you hear a voice within you say, "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

– Vincent Van Gogh

This is an innovation business. In order to make new things, we can't do things in old ways.

– George Wiseman

The act of being deliberately ridiculous is the whole heart of creative excitement. It creates freedom. It's a way of energizing something that can later be tamed.

– Geralyn Curtis

Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong directon.

– Wendell Berry

Done is better than perfect.

– Anne Mollegen Smith

If I think, everything is lost.

– Paul Cezanne