Quotes That Inspire You To Create

Have you ever had a crumby-no-good kind of day and stumbled upon a note/image/sign that sort of just turned that all around? I love surrounding myself with positive and inspiring quotations (and real life people too!) It's most important when I feel myself slipping away- creatively, emotionally, spiritually, hell even logically. I've compiled a short list of quotes that inspire me to create. Hopeful that it finds you at the right time and lights a spark in your head. heart. and hands. 

“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you’re there. It doesn’t matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that’s like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.”  ~Ray Bradbury

“Be silent, or say something better than silence.” ~Pythagoras

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"Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.” ~William Faulkner

“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.” ~Vincent Van Gogh

 

"Make visible what, without you, might have never been seen." - Robert Bresson

"You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them. ~Michael Jordan
 

"Dance first, think later” ~Samuel Beckett

"The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt." Sylvia Plath 

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.” ~Stephen King

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“Go where the silence is and say something.” ~Amy Goodman

“Creativity is a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.” ~Arthur Koestler

“Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.” ~John Updike

“The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.” ~John Maynard Keynes

"Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too." - Isabelle Allende

“Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.” ~Ray Bradbury

"Slow progress is better than no progress." -Unknown

“Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.” ~Anne Sexton

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities have crept in – forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.” ~Emerson

 

“Find something only you can say” ~James Dickey

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“Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.” ~James Russell Lowell

“Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite–getting something down.” ~Julia Cameron

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” ~Scott Adams

If you genuinely want something, don't wait for it -- teach yourself to be impatient. ~Gurbaksh Chahal

"The best way to get something done is to begin." - Unknown 


Do you have any favorite quotes that inspire you to get creative? Please share them in the comments below.