12 quotes to inspire creativity

As a creative, it is entirely normal to experience artistic blocks. Sometimes one of the best solutions to help overcome these creative ruts is to look towards other artists for inspiration, motivation, and ideas.

Reading other people’s creative insights can help spark inspiration and allow us all to learn from each other, bounce ideas around, and build a community to support our artistic endeavors.

Here is a list of 12 quotes to learn from and inspire creativity:

"You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."

~ Maya Angelou, American Memoirist

"Creativity is seeing what others see and thinking what no one else ever thought."

~ Albert Einstein

“Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.”

~ Pablo Picasso, Theoretical Physicist

“A creative life is an amplified life. It's a bigger life, a happier life, an expanded life, and a hell of a lot more interesting life”

~ Elizabeth Gilbert, American Journalist

“Don’t wait for inspiration. It comes while working."

~ Henri Matisse, French Visual Artist

“Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.”

~ Mary Lou Cook, Actress

“An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.”

~ Edwin Land, American Scientist

“Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.”

~ George Lois, American Art Director

“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

~ Sylvia Plath, American Poet

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”

~ Arthur Ashe, American Tennis Player

“Creativity doesn’t wait for that perfect moment. It fashions its own perfect moments out of ordinary ones.”

~ Bruce Garrabrandt, Author

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

~ Kurt Vonnegut, American Writer

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