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Sometimes an artist's first invention is herself. — Stephanie Vaughn

He's a pagan! I'm an artist! We're naturally sympathetic! — Sidney Howard

Creativity is a way of living life, no matter what our vocation, or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts ... — Madeleine L'Engle

Create with the heart; build with the mind. — Criss Jami

Whoever uses the spirit that is
in him creatively is an artist. To
make living itself an art, that is
the goal. — Henry Miller

Every piece of art has a buyer. Only Time decides when the right buyer will see it. — Suzy Kassem

You've got major artists releasing albums on their own and eschewing the major system. I think that breeds excitement and creativity. — Elijah Wood

For instance, in The Artist's Way, her influential book about cultivating creativity, Julia Cameron suggests scheduling an artist's date, — Gretchen Rubin

My motto for creativity-
And remember, STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST. — Austin Kleon

I am the wood frame, the bundle of ox hair, and the creative spark ... my value unhangable. — Marina Leigh Duff

I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on? — David Byrne

It is the artist who tries to gradually accustom people to the possibilities of a better state of things. — C.A. Dawson Scott

If you are wiling to do something that might not work, you are closer to being an artist. — Seth Godin

I hate being a writer. i tend to stick my emotions in things that cannot reciprocate. I've become a whore for my craft. — Darnell Lamont Walker

The whole world is like an opened candy jar, and we're plunging in for the best treats — Vicki Alayne Bradley

Artistic temperament is like a king with vigor and unlimited opportunity. You shake the structure to pieces by playing with it. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Creativity is the brain's invisible muscle -- that when used and excercised routinely -- becomes better and stronger. — Ashley Ormon

My heart balloons with admiration for these talented artists, which I so desperately want to be — Vicki Alayne Bradley

A walk with nature awakens the mind of creativity. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Every artist makes herself born. You must bring the artist into the world yourself. — Willa Cather

Thoughts are like burning stars, and ideas, they flood, they stretch the universe. — Criss Jami

In the creative act, the artist goes from intention to realization through a chain of totally subjective reactions. — Marcel Duchamp

At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet. — Seth Godin

She pours sugar on her life
and drinks the artist's marrow
in the bone of her glass and she lives. — Kelli Russell Agodon

The capacity to work feeds on itself and has its own course of development. This is what artists have going for them. — Anne Truitt

Magic is not just for the entertainment, but to inspire people to be creative enough with their lives. — Amit Kalantri

Never strive, O artist, to create what you are not irresistibly impelled to create! — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

As an artist, motive means opportunity — Siren Waroe

The creative strength is good enough and deep enough to bring itself to flower and to grow in spite of this sickness. — Joanne Greenberg

The price an artist pays for doing what he wants is that he has to do it. — William S. Burroughs

Each of us is an artist of our days; the greater our integrity and awareness, the more original and creative our time will become. — John O'Donohue

Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes. — Theodor Reik

There's a lack of creativity in every field because people are afraid. As an artist in this world we can do whatever we want — Kanye West

The spirit of an artist's gifts can wake our own. — Lewis Hyde "The Gift"

To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes. — Akira Kurosawa

When we neglect the artist in ourselves, there is a kind of mourning that goes on under the surface of our busy lives. — Pat Schneider

An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally. — Seth Godin

Curiosity is the main energy... — Robert Rauschenberg

I would rather be an artist than a leader. Ironically, a leader has to follow the rules. — Criss Jami

The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic. — G.K. Chesterton

An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours. — Irving Stone

Once in his lifetime every artist feels the hand of God and creates something that comes alive. — Crane Wilbur

Next to Morning Pages and Artist Dates, the most potent tool for contacting inner guidance and creativity is walking. — Julia Cameron

Creativity is not enough ... the skill of the true artist is to show the real in the light of the ideal and so transfigure it. — Roger Scruton

Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist's career. — E.A. Bucchianeri

If you're going to be an artist, real life is your inspiration. — Madonna Ciccone

Does madness bring creativity? Or does creativity cause madness? Can an artist create without the ups so high and the downs so low? — Megan Hart

I think every creative impulse that a working writer, or artist of any sort has, comes out of that dark old country where dreams come from. — Anne Rivers Siddons

All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life. — Rollo May

Artists die twice. First creatively. Then physically. The second one is the easiest. — Sylvester Stallone

The artist lives in an atmosphere of perpetual failure. — Harry Crews

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist. — Pablo Picasso

Art is in the eye of the beholder, and everyone will have their own interpretation. — E.A. Bucchianeri

It's an artist's right to rebel against the world's stupidity. — E.A. Bucchianeri

Every man in creating the beautiful appearance of the dream worlds is a perfect artist. — Friedrich Nietzsche

To be a good artist / letterer / designer / guitar player it takes practice. A lot of it. More than you can even fathom when you're starting out. — Jessica Hische

Through artistry, imagination not only allows one to express their creativity, but also their soul. — Donald L. Hicks

Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them out. — Chuck Jones

Arts without a spiritual relative is like frying buns with water. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Every great artist gives birth to a new universe, in which the familiar things look the way they have never before looked to anyone. — Rudolf Arnheim

For an artist to do creative work, he needs at once physical health and some physiomental ill health. He needs both serenity and gloom. — Yukio Mishima

Artists strive to free this true and spontaneous self in their work. Creativity, meditation are ways of freeing an inner voice. — Gloria Steinem

The complete recipe for imagination is absolute boredom. — Criss Jami

Some things are meant to live and die with an artist — J.R. Stewart

Popular literature now depends more than ever on the wishes of the audience, not the creativity of the artist. — Neil Postman

Until you learn that an artist cannot afford to scorn any phase of life that is human, you will never do great work. — Marjorie Benton Cooke

Measurements are never enough. The artist's eye and desire to breathe life into the subject must be the deciding factors. — David McCullough

To be an artist was to have failure as your constant bedfellow. — M. Thomas Gammarino

A good artist does not just make imaginations beautiful to the mind, but also more pleasant to the eye with a superb visible touch of excellence. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Does it not occur to people that I might be artificial by nature? — Maurice Ravel

The body, in 'La Belle Noiseuse,' was the source of the artist's creativity. — Emmanuelle Beart

If an artist wants to use his mind for creative work, cutting oneself off from society is a necessary thing — Glenn Gould

Theater is the crucible where we can create the dynamics of life without suffering the flames of their combustion. — Tom Althouse

In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious. — Viktor E. Frankl

In the act of creativity, the artist lets go the self-control which he normally clings to and is open to riding the wind. — Madeleine L'Engle

The artist is the most interesting of all phenomena, for he represents creativity, the definition of man. — Allan Bloom

As an artist you have to fight and survive the wilderness to keep your creative freedom. Creativity is very fragile. — Karel Appel

Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene. — John Barth

The artist has a special task and duty ... reminding people of their humanity and the promise of their creativity. — Lewis Mumford

The value of an artist is more because of his originality than his skill. — Amit Kalantri

Freedom can choke you if you don't know how to handle it. — Charlotte Eriksson

I was listening to Jimi Hendrix; I just admire his artistry and creativity as an artist. — LL Cool J

She was in awe of all his work. 'How do you do it?" she asked.
He smiled and said, 'By loving you. — Kamand Kojouri

I am an artist you know ... it is my right to be odd. — E.A. Bucchianeri

He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death. — Irving Stone

Persecution inspires men who otherwise would have remained dormant. As pain whips the painter, his brush whips the canvas. — Matshona Dhliwayo

An artist who conforms to conventional ideas is nothing but a mere charlatan. — Michael Bassey Johnson

A critic is not a creative artist, is a commenter, a midwife of creativity, but not creative himself. — Terry Teachout