Creative Art Quotes

• I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.

  G. H. Hardy

  Art, Creativity, Creative

  G. H. Hardy, C. P. Snow (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.115, Cambridge University Press

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• The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

  Albert Einstein

  Witty, Clever, Creativity

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Art, Practice, Soul

  "Finding Soul in LA: Five Creative Adventures in the City" by Roxie Sarhangi, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 18, 2014.

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• For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance

  Letter to Theo van Gogh from The Hague, www.webexhibits.org. October 22, 1882.

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• Life is about trying things to see if they work.

  Ray Bradbury

  Creativity, Imagination, Creative

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• You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

  Jack London

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

  Jack London (2015). “Jack London on Adventure: Words of Wisdom from an Expert Adventurer”, p.5, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Life, Beautiful, Art

  Roxana Robinson, Georgia O'Keeffe (1989). “Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life”, p.256, UPNE

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• Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Art, Funny Friend, Drawing

  "The Golden Book" Magazine, Vol. 7, (p. 323), 1928.

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• An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Art, Failure, Creative

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• Do not fear mistakes. There are none.

  Miles Davis

  Life, Music, Beautiful

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• Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.

  Anna Freud

  Inspirational, Witty, Educational

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• Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

  Scott Adams

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.438, Penguin

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• A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

  Frank Capra

  Positive Thinking, Creativity, Creative

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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  Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

  Leo Burnett

  Creativity, Bad Ass, Thinking

  Leo Burnett (1961). “Communications of an Advertising Man: Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett”

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• Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

  Ray Bradbury

  Thinking Of You, Creativity, Self

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• You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.

  Ray Bradbury

  Thinking Of You, Writing, Creativity

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• Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Hands, Doe

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• Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Inspiration, Stealing Things, Imagination

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

  James Russell Lowell

  Life, Beautiful, Creativity

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• Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

  Bill Moyers

  Creativity, Creative, Piercings

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• The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Dust, Soul

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• The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

  Pablo Picasso

  Life, Beautiful, Art

  Elizabeth Cowling, Pablo Picasso (2002). “Picasso: style and meaning”, Phaidon Press

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  They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

  Andy Warhol

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.124, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.

  John Updike

  Motivational, Inspiring, Education

  John Updike (2013). “Picked-Up Pieces: Essays”, p.22, Random House

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• Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

  John W. Gardner

  Life, Wisdom, Art

  "Cracking the Code of Our Physical Universe". Book by Matthew M. Radmanesh (p.269), May, 2006.

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