Quotes About Creativity

I need drama in my life to keep making music.

You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

Life must be lived as play.

Life is like art done in chalk, beautiful but temporary, enjoy it while possible.

Life is too short not to experiment.

The only rule is don't be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in.

I don't know where I'm going from here but I promise it won't be boring!

Make your own path. The well trodden path is not always the right path.

Only your imagination sets the limits for what you can do with your life, make sure that every moment counts.

Don't always play it safe and follow the path, go where the is no path and make your own.

No one else can speak the words on your lips. Drench yourself in words unspoken. Live your life with arms wide open. Today is where your book begins. The rest is still unwritten.

If you always color inside the lines the picture never changes.

Normality is a paved road: it's comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.

Be not content with stories of those who went before you. Go forth and create your own story.

You have understood what all great painters understand: in order to forget the rules, you must know them and respect them.

Don't worry about mistakes too much, because some of the most beautiful things we create in life come from changes we make after failure.

Live your life outside the box, because when you die you're going into one.

Life is about the people we meet and the things we create with them. So lets go out and start creating, life is too short to be spent alone.

Don't be afraid to experiment. Stop living under laws. If it looks or sounds good to you stick with it. There is no true look for good.

It takes a great of courage to live according to your principles and values that are behind them, and to tolerate the pain, the isolation, and the anxiety of being different from other people, of being creative, of living a unique existence; the courage to face death with equanimity. To stand by one's beliefs is part of that, too. It takes courage to stand behind one's beliefs when they run counter to a society or a group or pressures from other people.

Don't copy and try to be someone else. What's the point of that when you can be original and true to yourself? Quit being stupid.

Fitting in allows you to blend in with everyone else, but being different allows you to be yourself, to be unique and to be more creative.

Your unique way of doing things is what makes you so special so don't always feel the need to do things the way others want you to do them.