50 Artsy Quotes That Will Inspire You To Create Something Beautiful

“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, amazon.com

“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, amazon.com

“Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.”

— Irving Stone, amazon.com

“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, amazon.com

“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, amazon.com

“A blank canvas... has unlimited possibilities”

— Stephanie Perkins, amazon.com

“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, amazon.com

“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 i…”

— Kurt Vonnegut, amazon.com

“They're only crayons. You didn't fear them in Kindergarten, why fear them now?”

— Hugh MacLeod, amazon.com

“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…”

— W. Somerset Maugham, amazon.com

“Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.”

— Miguel Ruiz, amazon.com

“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, amazon.com

“You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.”

— George Bernard Shaw, amazon.com

“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, amazon.com

“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, amazon.com

“Art without emotion its like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag.”

— Laurie Halse Anderson, amazon.com

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”

— Thomas Merton, amazon.com

“Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.”

— Chuck Klosterman, amazon.com

“Art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”

— Rainbow Rowell, amazon.com

“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, amazon.com

“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, amazon.com

“Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives.”

— Aberjhani, amazon.com

“That's creativity in a nutshell. A messy tug-of-war with imagination to erase that feeling that nothing really matters anyway.”

— Zoe Whittall, amazon.com

“A good-enough novel violently written now is better than a perfect novel meticulously written never.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com

“We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe.”

— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com

“Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.”

— Julian Barnes, amazon.com

“What is wrong with playing with words? Words love to be played with, just like children or kittens do!”

— David Almond, amazon.com

“It’s an artist’s right to rebel against the world’s stupidity.”

— E.A. Bucchianeri, amazon.com

“Reading, conversation, environment, culture, heroes, mentors, nature – all are lottery tickets for creativity. Scratch away at them and you’ll find out how big a prize you’ve won.”

— Twyla Tharp, amazon.com

“The truth is that creative activity is one that involves the entire self - our emotions, our levels of energy, our characters, and our minds.”

— Robert Greene, amazon.com