Alex Holyoake

50 Artsy Quotes That Will Inspire You To Create Something Beautiful

That's creativity in a nutshell. A messy tug-of-war with imagination to erase that feeling that nothing really matters anyway.
Holly Riordan
February 22, 2017
“Creativity is the state of consciousness in which you enter into the treasury of your innermost being and bring the beauty into manifestation.”
— Torkom Saraydarian, The Solar Angel
Tagged: Creativity, beauty, Consciousness
“Using your talent, hobby or profession in a way that makes you contribute with something good to this world is truly the way to go.”
— Simon Zingerman, We All Need Heroes: Stories of the Brave and Foolish
Tagged: Creative, Hobbies, Talents
“Art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”
— Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
Tagged: Creative, Art, Feelings
“Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.”
— Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
Tagged: Creative, Art, Love
“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
— Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island
Tagged: Creative, Art, Find Yourself
“Art without emotion its like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag.”
— Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak
Tagged: Creative, Emotion, Cake
“He took his pain and turned it into something beautiful. Into something that people connect to. And that's what good music does. It speaks to you. It changes you.”
— Hannah Harrington, Saving June(Harlequin Teen)
Tagged: Creative, Music, Pain
“An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.”
— J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
Tagged: Creative, Artist, Perfection
“You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.”
— George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah
Tagged: Creative, Mirrors, Art, Souls
“The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”
— Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without A Country
Tagged: Creative, Arts, Singing, Dancing
“Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.”
— Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose(FSG Classics)
Tagged: Creative, Art, Democratic
“I do not know anything about Art with a capital A. What I do know about is my art. Because it concerns me. I do not speak for others. So I do not speak for things which profess to speak for others. My art, however, speaks for me. It lights my way.”
— Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves
Tagged: Creative, Art, Writing
“Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.”
— Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Tagged: Creative, Artist, Art
“I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.”
— W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil
Tagged: Creative, Art, Painting, Music
“If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.”
— Jasper Fforde, The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime
Tagged: Creative, Greed, Hate, Murder
“A blank canvas... has unlimited possibilities”
— Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After
Tagged: Creative, Blank Canvas, possibilities
“I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of them. Not all.”
— Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Tagged: Creative, Art, Emptiness
“It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn't in the middle of the room. Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.”
— Stephen King, On Writing
Tagged: Creative, Writing, Desk, Life
“Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.”
— Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo
Tagged: Creative, Talent, Dedication
“When you love something, you want to do it all the time, even if no one is paying you for it. At least that's how I felt about drawing.”
— Meg Cabot, All-American Girl
Tagged: Creative, Passion, drawing