Creative Inspirational Quotes

You want appreciation. Even though you like what's happening now doesn't mean that yo still don't want appreciation or greater stimulation. It just means you're been wanting. The perfect creative stance is satisfaction where I am and eagerness for more. ~ Abraham Hicks

I am firmly convinced to-day that, generally speaking, it is in youth that men lay the essential groundwork of their creative thought, wherever that creative thought exists. I make a distinction between the wisdom of age- which can only arise from the greater profundity and foresight that are based on the experiences of a long life- and the creative genius of youth, which blossoms out in thoughts and ideas with inexhaustible fertility, without being able to put these into practice immediately, because of their very superabundance. These furnish the building materials and plans for the future; and it is from them that age takes the stones and builds the edifice, unless the so-called wisdom of the years may have smothered the creative genius of youth. ~ Adolf Hitler

If I'd waited to know who I was or what I was about before I started "being creative," well, I'd still be sitting around trying to figure myself out instead of making things. In my experience, it's in the act of making things and doing our work that we figure out who we are. ~ Austin Kleon

Without us, in other words, there can never be hope of a We. ~ Junot Diaz

Your Life is always a result of your thoughts about it-including your obviously creative thought that you seldom get what you choose. ~ Neale Donald Walsch

My ego drives me nuts. It asks me to be competitive, creative, and smart. ~ Debasish Mridha

Success is a creative journey with meaning and purpose. ~ Debasish Mridha

We are all need to be creative in life because we are running an endless race and we need to bring something new, fresh and something enticing on the table. ~ Euginia Herlihy

It's only natural to experience times that are difficult and painful, no matter who you are. those are times when anyone would feel tempted to give up on their dream. However, if you try to avoid adversity, you'll end up succumbing to the external environment or to your own limitations. You're able to demonstrate the creative wisdom that can overcome difficulty only if you face it bravely and assertively, instead of avoiding it-and you will grow through your hardship. ~ Ilchi Lee

The creative process is a living thing, implanted, as it were in the souls of men. ~ Carl Jung

I love a long bath. I love anything creative. I love decorating. I even love just flipping through magazines and vegging out for a while. But I'm also one of those people who loves to work, so I'll sing, dance, work on my next performance, or write whomever it may be about a new idea. ~ Jennifer Lopez

Most people are too busy working on insignificant projects and pursuing life's frivolities to tap their creative abilities. It's a mistake to be one of them. Striving for excellence where excellence doesn't matter is the stuff misfits are made of. ~ Ernie J Zelinski

I learned I'm not a good executive, I'm an entrepreneur and I'm creative. I have to go with my gut and do what I want to do. ~ Jerry Weintraub

So that is the design process or the creative process. Start with a problem, forget the problem, the problem reveals itself or the solution reveals itself and then you reevaulate it. This is what you are doing all the time. ~ Paul Rand

Every aspect of life is pre-programmed to rise to its highest creative possibility. We don't have to make that happen, but we have to allow it to happen. And that itself is the struggle of life: resisting the resistant mind. ~ Marianne Williamson

As in a love affair, two creative people can destroy themselves trying to recapture that youthful spirit, at twenty-one or twenty-four, of creating without even being aware of how it's happening ~ John Lennon

Writer's block is as a depression in the earth. Like a river that flows into this depression for a time of rest and tranquility, eventually filling to continue its journey from the lower end of its shore line, so too shall your creative juices flow again. ~ Everett R. Lake

Creative problem solving is not necessarily tantamount to cheating. ~ V. St. Clair

Art is a creative re-creation of an imaginative or real observation. ~ Debasish Mridha

A Seed for Contemplation:
Creative people who cherish the gift of life often slip into the secret chambers of the creative mind. Their solutions are well-rounded, more sensible than those of people who rely solely upon reason as their mainstay. Gratitude unseals fountains of creativity, because a grateful person is relaxed. This allows him to take stock of his circumstances with an objective mind. A creative person often gets three-dimensional answers to his problems. - , ~ Harold Klemp

The wild is an integral part of who we are as children. Without pausing to consider what or where or how, we gather herbs and flowers, old apples and rose hips, shiny pebbles and dead spiders, poems, tears and raindrops, putting each treasured thing into the cauldron of our souls. We stir our bucket of mud as if it were, every one, a bucket of chocolate cake to be mixed for the baking. Little witches, hag children, we dance our wildness, not afraid of not knowing.
But there comes a time when the kiss of acceptance is delayed until the mud is washed from our knees, the chocolate from our faces. Putting down our wooden spoon with a new uncertainty, setting aside our magical wand, we learn another system of values based on familiarity, on avoiding threat and rejection. We are told it is all in the nature of growing up. But it isn't so.
Walking forward and facing the shadows, stumbling on fears like litter in the alleyways of our minds, we can find the confidence again. We can let go of the clutter of our creative stagnation, abandoning the chaos of misplaced and outdated assumptions that have been our protection. Then beyond the half light and shadows, we can slip into the dark and find ourselves in a world where horizons stretch forever. Once more we can acknowledge a reality that is unlimited finding our true self, a wild spirit, free and eager to explore the extent of our potential, free to dance like fireflies, free to be the drum, free to love absolutely with ev ~ Emma Restall Orr

When you're young artist, it's really important to like pay attention to what you're doing and be honest with yourself and in the creative proccess. ~ Chester Bennington

Love is the beauty; love is the truth. Love is the creative and sustaining energy of life ~ Debasish Mridha

Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old-fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as writer.
[1967 interview] ~ Ray Bradbury

When we merely follow another, we take a potentially creative mind out of service-our own. ~ William Coperthwaite

You are supposed to be ON. By ON I mean doing your very best work always. Operating at a level where you are dangerously good and exceptionally creative. ~ Detavio Samuels

Love is the creative force of this universe. ~ Debasish Mridha

In order to be creative rules cannot exist. The creative mind deserves no less. ~ Steven Cuoco

Breakthrough artists always expand the very concept of freedom. ~ Talismanist Giebra

Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of ones chosen form. ~ Stephen Nachmanovitch

Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane. ~ R.D. Laing

I've been known to write 10 pages a day for 10 days running before I take a breath. I am not a disciplined writer. I'm one of those people who laughingly call themselves inspirational writers, which basically means someone who has no control over their own creative process. ~ Catherine Ryan Hyde

The routine is as much a part of the creative process as the lightening bold of inspiration, maybe more. And this routine is available to everyone. ~ Twyla Tharp

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read. ~ Alice Walker

Some ideas are an expedition. ~ Talismanist Giebra

Remind me, Lord, of why I create things and that YOU ... you are the best of artists, put these gifts in me to share with the world. ~ Jennifer Allwood

You become more divine as you become more creative. All the religions of the world have said God is the creator. I don't know whether he is the creator or not, but one thing I know: the more creative you become, the more godly you become. When your creativity comes to a climax, when your whole life becomes creative, you live in God. So he must be the creator because people who have been creative have been closest to him. Love what you do. Be meditative while you are doing it – whatsoever it is ~ Osho

I truly want what you truly want-nothing different and nothing more. Don't you see that is My greatest gift to you? If I wanted for you something other than what you want for you, and then went so far as to cause you to have it, where is your free choice? How can you be a creative being if I am dictating what you shall be, do, and have? My joy is in your freedom, not your compliance. ~ Neale Donald Walsch

Pain is what makes us human. Being able to keep fighting despite the pain is what makes us heroes. ~ Creative Caring Crazy Caroline

Violence sometimes may have cleared away obstructions quickly, but it never has proved itself creative. ~ Albert Einstein

Clearly the hardest thing for the working artist is to create his own conception and follow it, unafraid of the strictures it imposes, however rigid these may be ... I see it as the clearest evidence of genius when an artist follows his conception, his idea, his principle, so unswervingly that he has this truth of his constantly in his control, never letting go of it even for the sake of his own enjoyment of his work. ~ Andrei Tarkovsky

I feel like I've swallowed a cloudy sky ~ Haruki Murakami

Almost always the creative, dedicated minority has made the world better. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Whenever an answer, a solution, or a creative idea is needed, stop thinking for a moment by focusing attention on your inner energy field ... When you resume thinking, it will be fresh and creative. ~ Eckhart Tolle

Your personal life, your professional life, and your creative life are all intertwined. I went through a few very difficult years where I felt like a failure. But it was actually really important for me to go through that. Struggle, for me, is the most inspirational thing in the world at the end of the day - as long as you treat it that way. ~ Skylar Grey

Inside you resides an ocean of creative mind, which is bigger than all the land in this world. So cultivate your land to produce all the goods you and your friends need. ~ Debasish Mridha

A creative person has little power over his own life. He is not free. He is captive and driven by his daimon. ~ C. G. Jung

You're on this earth with a divine purpose: to rise to the level of your highest creative possibility, expressing all that you are intellectually, emotionally, psychologically, and physically in order to make the universe a more beautiful place. ~ Marianne Williamson

Great artists have wild and untamed reality. ~ Talismanist Giebra

When each of these three elements of vision-concern for excellence, for people and for the wider environment-are present, business is transformed from a tool for making profits into a creative, humane experiment for improving life. ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

An inventor is he whose thoughts and imagination become things of reality by creative action. ~ Debasish Mridha

Where do I come from?
We are the children of the Great Explosion of Love that begot the whole Universe. We bear a common lineage that unites us in its interminable matrix, that is manifested in all of the different and infinite dimensions, allowing us to participate in this unending co-creation with an attitude of loving co-responsibility.
Who am I?
I am a being of light (Love), with innumerable dimensional manifestations of shadings of Love and Life. The transitory experience within matter, time and space (human being) resides in those manifestations. This allows me the use of my free will in a co-responsible way in the co-creative process of life. ~ Ivan Figueroa-Otero

Sometimes if you have financial restraints, it's a benefit. It forces you to come up with a more creative way. ~ Robert De Niro

There's no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there's no end to it. ~ Henry Moore

I find myself most drawn to: art that has arisen from a deeply personal conversation between the artist and the work at hand. It is art that walks perilously close to the Edge, that crosses the river of blood into Faerie, that flies so high it is scorched by the sun, and then returns to tell the tale to us. It is art that needed to be written, or painted, or sung, or woven, or otherwise shaped. It is art gifted by the Mystery to the maker ... and then, in turn, gifted to us. ~ Terri Windling

During my 20's and 30's at some point I started to think, "I have to give it up and I have to grow up." But the truth is that I can never give it up and that's another thing that I always tell people, especially young people: don't even bother thinking that you're going to give up whatever your art or your creative thing is. It's always there for you. ~ Alice Bag

The history of the world will, one day, be defined by the people who witnessed the tragedy of impending extinction and were able to turn humanity's destructive patterns into creative solutions. ~ Jennifer Skiff

The Bible makes it clear that every time that there is a story of faith, it is completely original. God's creative genius is endless. ~ Eugene H. Peterson

An idea is like a spark to creativity, which turns to a wild conflagration of thoughts, burning every ignorance. When the fire burns, the creative power is awake, and comes out to join the ideas in your head to bring out the hidden valuables the world never knew ~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Because when I dream, I feel no fear,
And when I am fearless, I am my most creative self. ~ Nikki Rowe

Today, is the beginning of your future
so be as creative as your heart desires in designing your life map. ~ Leta B.

Expectations have a creative power in it, so expect what you want in life. ~ Debasish Mridha

I am pushing you, even if it's off a cliff, to create. Write that book, that song; pore over the concept of redecorating your life. I meet people all the time who say they're not creative. Bullshit, motherfuckers, you are creative. ~ Nikki Sixx

Food is a creative, personal journey ~ Michael Treanor

As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation
either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

We will attract potential partners who reflect back to us what we need to heal, balance and strengthen in ourselves- until we become whole. At that point, we can attract our twin flame or soul mate and enjoy a peaceful co- creative partnership that benefits all of mankind. ~ Dashama Konah Gordon

Open your creative heart like an unfurling flower and petal and share your exquisiteness. ~ Amy Leigh Mercree

Creative exploration [is] impossible, without (humble) acknowledgement of the unknown. ~ Jordan Peterson

Your dream will never let you rest, it will keep knocking at your mind's door instil imagination which will lead to a creative mind. Let loose your imagination and begin to create everything that's given to you before the foundations of the earth. Dream like never before. ~ Euginia Herlihy

How much time, creative energy, and emotion do we expend resisting change because we assume growth must always be painful? Much personal growth is uncomfortable, but it's worse to thwart the ascent of your authenticity. ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach

Many of us squander precious natural resources -time, creative energy, emotion- comparing our talents to those of others. Today ask Spirit to call forth your authentic gifts, so that you might know them, acknowledge them, and own them. ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach

Creative people, especially those who are just starting out, feel that they have to conform and be a mass-produced product in order to be noticed. The truth of the matter is that genuineness and unconventionality is often what helps make a mark on the world. ~ Veronika Carnaby

The Most Creative Shortcut to Success Is to Reevaluate What Success Means to You. ~ Ernie J Zelinski

Being creative is good for the mind... I write because I don't want to take Prozac! ~ Flossy Abraham

For every writer, there is a challenge of time that is only magnified in the solitude of the work. ~ E. Obeng-Amoako Edmonds

FOR BEING A SUCESSFUL PERSON, ONE NEEDS TO HAVE KNOWLEDGE OF DIVERSIFIED FEILDS. IT WILL IMPROVE YOUR THOUGHTS AND GIVES YOU CREATIVE IDEAS. YOUR VISION WILL BE BROADER AND AIM WILL BE HIGH. WHAT IT NEEDS TO HAVE CONFIDENCE IN YOU! ~ PRIYANSHU JOSHI

Today I fulfill my creative side. I want to bloom wherever I am planted! ~ Louise Hay

When the Creator touches the Creation, the Creation becomes creative. ~ Dustin Hedrick

Creativeness is the only thing that shows our imagination ~ Dim Godswill

On the road to liberation, learn to press Next.
Even if there is no such an option. ~ Talismanist Giebra

Poverty comes from the poverty of positive thoughts and creative ideas. ~ Debasish Mridha

Cherish your creative spark, because there's no one else who can light it back up for you when it burns out. ~ Richard P. Denney

Creative people see Prometheus in a mirror, never Pandora. ~ David Brin

The vision should be through our creative eyes, but along with the spectacles of reality. ~ Rajasaraswathii

Sometimes life is hard. Things go wrong - in life and in love and in business and in friendship and in health and in all the other ways that life can go wrong. And when things get tough, this is what you should do: make good art ... Someone on the internet thinks what you're doing is stupid or evil or it's all been done before: make good art. Probably things will work out somehow, eventually time will take the sting away, and it doesn't even matter. Do what only you can do best: make good art. ~ Neil Gaiman

I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this.
[Cormac McCarthy's Venomous Fiction, New York Times, April 19, 1992] ~ Cormac McCarthy

Whenever there is inspiration ... and enthusiasm ... there is a creative empowerment that goes far beyond what a mere person is capable of. ~ Eckhart Tolle

The creative mind seeks chance and accident while everyone else seeks control and order. Rod Judkins 'Change Your Mind ~ Rod Judkins

Be creative, be inventive minded, dream bigger that's the way to the promised land (your destiny). ~ Euginia Herlihy

Usually naive interviewers hover between two mutually contradictory convictions: one, that a text we call creative develops almost instantaneously in the mystic heat of inspirational raptus; or the other, that the writer has followed a recipe, a kind of secret set of rules that they would like to see revealed.
There is no set of rules, or, rather, there are many, varied and flexible rules ... ~ Umberto Eco

The creative process is a love story that never ends. The ideas are like suitors competing for your attention. You may have relationships, with multiple ideas, at once. You may devote yourself completely to one idea, for a awhile, but the affairs will never end. There will always be more ideas to romance and more concepts to develop. And all for that wonderful moment when you get to gaze at the complete creation and hold perfection in your arms, for one blissful moment ... before your inner-critic starts tearing it to shreds. ~ Jaeda DeWalt

Writing is both mask and unveiling. ~ E.B. White

Be creative, be useful, be practical, be generous and finish big ~ Lisa Genova

Some say that to struggle in life is the point of it all. Wisdom says that it is not in the struggling that life's creative process precedes, but in the deep knowing that your victory is already won. ~ Denis John George

We can imagine how to create and be creative on a beach in a cosmic sky. No grain of sand is merely just sandy; with imagination at hand the sand can become whatever you fancy. ~ Jennifer Sodini

It was a truth that he had painfully been forced to acknowledge for some time, at least to himself: that the creative force in life was extravagance rather than tightfistedness, gambling rather than calculation, and that every true creative act was born of risk taking, without which nothing better than sterile repetition was ever possible. ~ Davide Longo

Attempt always to uncover the beauty in everyday surroundings. If you cannot find it, then be the one to create it. ~ Stefan Cupka

When money is lost, a little is lost. When time is lost, much more is lost. When health is lost, practically everything is lost. And when creative spirit is lost, there is nothing left. ~ Ernie J Zelinski

Creative mind never rest, its always on call. ~ Euginia Herlihy

For every dilemma, find at least three or four possible solutions. The creative process leads to better results. ~ Marilyn Suttle