Creativity Quotes

"Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish."

- Balthus

"Anyone who says you can’t see a thought simply doesn’t know art."

- Wynetka Ann Reynolds

"An artist is someone who produces things that people don’t need to have but that he – for some reason – thinks it would be a good idea to give them."

- Andy Warhol

"I dream a lot. I do more painting when I’m not painting. It’s in the subconscious.."

- Andrew Wyeth

"The world today doesn’t make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?"

- Pablo Picasso

"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."

- Victor Hugo

"I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears."

- Adele

"The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between"

- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

"Every track starts with a single, strong idea"

- Hannes Bieger

"Don't play what's there, play what's not there"

- Miles Davis

"Music begins where the possibilities of language end."

- Jean Sibelius

"In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of."

- Robert Schumann

"Every great inspiration is but an experiment."

- Charles Ives

"I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls."

- Anaïs Nin

"What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce."

- Karl Lagerfeld

"Music is the language spoken by angels."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words."

- Franz Liszt

"I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can."

- Franz Schubert

"Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore."

- Elliott Carter

"Life is a lot like jazz…it’s best when you improvise."

- George Gershwin

"I took your idea and I made it better."

- Leslie Knope

"Be alone, that is the secret of invention; Be alone—that is when ideas are born."

- Nikola Tesla

"I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create."

- Yousuf Karsh

"Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out."

- Criss Jami

"Recruitment IS marketing. If you’re a recruiter nowadays and you don’t see yourself as a marketer, you’re in the wrong profession."

- Matthew Jeffrey

"All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness."

"Let your 30th year be a canvas for your dreams, and may you paint it with bold and bright colors."

"May the next decade be a canvas for your dreams, painted with the colors of prosperity and success."

"Your 30s are a canvas. Paint it with bold colors, big dreams, and beautiful moments."

"On your 30th Birthday, may every day be a canvas for your dreams. Here's to painting a masterpiece."