Creativity Quotes

"There's a way to do it better. Find it."

- Thomas Edison

"So what’s Marlboro Man’s story, then? ‘Cause I kinda wanna grab him by the ears and ride that little mustache like a Jet Ski."

- Sassy

"Throughout all of the changes that have happened in my life, one of the priorities I've had is to never change the way I write songs and the reasons I write songs. I write songs to help me understand life a little more. I write songs to get past things that cause me pain. And I write songs because sometimes life makes more sense to me when it's being sung in a chorus, and when I can write it in a verse."

- Taylor Swift

"People haven't always been there for me, but music always has."

- Taylor Swift

"Everybody has that point in their life where you hit a crossroads and you've had a bunch of bad days and there's different ways you can deal with it and the way I dealt with it was I just turned completely to music."

- Taylor Swift

"I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol."

- Taylor Swift

"If you write, you can turn your lessons into your legacy."

- Taylor Swift

""I wouldn't be a songwriter if it wasn't for books that I loved as a kid. I think that when you can escape into a book it trains your imagination to think big and to think that more can exist than what you see.""

- Taylor Swift

""Books are a uniquely portable magic.""

- Stephen King

"It is through art that we will prevail and endure. It lives on after us and defines us as a people."

- Rita Moreno

"I know now that he who hopes to be universal in his art must plant in his own soil . . . The secret of my best work is that it is Mexican."

- Diego Rivera

"This is what poetry means—language that surprises and keeps us on our toes."

- Gary Soto

"To sing is to love and affirm, to fly and to soar, to coast into the hearts of the people who listen to tell them that life is to live, that love is there, that nothing is a promise, but that beauty exists, and must be hunted for and found."

- Joan Baez

"The elasticity of imagination and compassion is what writing and reading promote."

- Julia Alvarez

"An artist is above all a human being, profoundly human to the core. If the artist can’t feel everything that humanity feels, if the artist isn’t capable of loving until he forgets himself and sacrifices himself if necessary, if he won’t put down his magic brush and head the fight against the oppressor, then he isn’t a great artist."

- Diego Rivera

"I paint flowers so they will not die."

- Frida Kahlo

"When you sing in English and Spanish, it’s two completely different forms of expression and . . . even the people who don’t speak Spanish love to hear me sing in Spanish."

- Gloria Estefan

"Dance with the waves, move with the sea. Let the rhythm of the water set your soul free."

- Christy Ann Martine

"Don’t try to be original, just try to be good."

- Paul Rand

"You can’t make anything viral, but you can make something good."

- Peter Shankman

"When you write non-fiction, you sit down at your desk with a pile of notebooks, newspaper clippings, and books and you research and put a book together the way you would a jigsaw puzzle."

- Janine di Giovanni

"When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There's no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource."

- Biz Stone

"I feel every painting is a challenging piece of a puzzle for me and others to solve. I feel both humble and exhilarated to see if completed."

- Akiane Kramarik

"Every film is a puzzle really, from an editorial point of view."

- Walter Murch

"Always think outside the box and embrace opportunities that appear, wherever they might be."

- Lakshmi Mittal

"Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow."

"You can't spell cats without TS."

"I'm not asleep, my mind is alive."

"You could lose your hand, you could lose your foot. You could lose your hand getting it off your foot."

"Not the steak!"