Creativity Quotes

"Art is comfort for the disturbed and disturbing for the comfortable."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"The idea says get in the car. Don’t worry, I’m driving. Sometimes I’m shotgun, sometimes I’m in the trunk. The idea takes you where it wants to go."

- Dave Chappelle

"If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it."

- Dana Brunetti

"I like the art of making money more than making money."

- Richard Rawlings

""The best way to look stylish on a budget is to try second-hand, bargain hunting, and vintage.""

- Orlando Bloom

"The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself."

- Peter Thiel

"To be a parent is to be chief designer of a product more advanced than any technology and more interesting than the greatest work of art."

- Alain de Boton

"Oh phosphorescence. Now there’s a word to lift your hat to... To find that phosphorescence, that light within — is the genius behind poetry."

- William Luce

"Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color."

- Paul Cezanne

"Light is the first element of design; without it there is no color, form, or texture."

- Thomas E. Farin

"I try to make music with emotion and integrity. And authenticity. You can feel when something's authentic, and you can feel when it's not: you know when someone's trying to make the club record, or trying to make the girl record, or trying to make the thug record. It's none of that. It's just my emotions."

- Jay-Z

"You could name practically any problem in the hood and there'd be a rap song for you."

- Jay-Z

"Hip-hop is a perfect mix between poetry and boxing."

- Jay-Z

"You have no control over how your story begins or ends. But by now, you should know that all things have an ending. Every spark returns to darkness. Every sound returns to silence. Every flower returns to sleep with the earth. The journey of the sun and moon is predictable. But yours, is your ultimate art."

- Suzy Kassem

"Normality is a paved road: it’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it."

- Vincent van Gogh

"Spring makes its own statement, so loud and clear that the gardener seems to be only one of the instruments, not the composer."

- Geoffrey B. Charlesworth

"Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears."

- Octavio Paz

"Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories."

- Ray Bradbury

"TV is chewing gum for the eyes."

- Frank Lloyd Wright

"You don’t make mistakes, just happy little accidents."

- Bob Ross

"Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise."

- Julia Cameron

"The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul."

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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

- James Russell Lowell

"The universe buries strange jewels deep within us all, and then stands back to see if we can find them."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"Cheerleading is an art, and every cheerleader is a masterpiece."

"Welcome to the 60's club, where age is revered, and life is an art."

"Age 60 is a canvas painted with the colors of all your beautiful moments."

"We are artists: your hair is my canvas, and your energy is my inspiration."

"Forget the face filters, I’ve got a makeup artist"