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Words to inspire your creativity and artistry...
Creativity takes courage.
- Henri Matisse
The worst enemy of creativity is self-doubt.
- Sylvia Plath
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
- Vincent van Gogh
Art reveals who we are and who we long to be.
- Erwin McManus
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
- Thomas Merton
Art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos.
- Saul Bellow
Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
- André Gide
A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle.
- Robert Henri
We are both works of art and artists at work.
- Erwin Raphael McManus
The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.
- Robert Henri
Art is not a thing; it is a way.
Elbert Hubbard
Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
The world is beautiful but not sayable. That's why we need art.
- Charles Simic
Art is something that makes you breathe with a different kind of happiness.
- Anni Albers
True creativity does not come easy; creativity is born of risk and refined from failure.
- Erwin McManus
The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.
- Julia Cameron
Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.
- William Plomer
An artist is an explorer.
- Henri Matisse
When we stop fearing failure, we start being artists.
- Ann Voskamp
A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle.
- Grace Hartigan
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
- Vincent van Gogh
If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, am here to live out loud.
- Emile Zola
Action is the foundational key to all success.
- Pablo Picasso
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
- Pablo Picasso
An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.
- Louise Bourgeois
The artist is not a special kind of person; rather each person is a special kind of artist.
- Ananda Coomaraswamy
Art is when a human tells another human what it is to be human.
- Adrian Elmer
I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
- Claude Monet
Always keep your eyes open. Keep watching. Because whatever you can see can inspire you.
- Grace Coddington
Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their hearts as well as their eyes.
- Nikki Giovanni
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
- Oscar Wilde
There is no innovation and creativity without failure.
- Brene Brown
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
- Herman Melville
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.
- Robert Hughes