“The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“Dress appropriately for your work environment. We get it; you want everyone to know how creative and interesting you are. Well, let your personality do that for you rather than your crop top and feather shoes.”— Grace Helbig, amazon.com
“Girls can be athletic. Guys can have feelings. Girls can be smart. Guys can be creative. And vice versa. Gender is specific only to your reproductive organs (and sometimes not even to those), not your interest, likes, dislikes, goals, and ambitions.”— Connor Franta, amazon.com
“A perfect studio has always told me that the person is afraid of his own mind and is reflecting in his outward space an inward need for control. Creativity is just the opposite: it is a loss of control.”— Natalie Goldberg, amazon.com
“If you need your public profile to be all positive, you’re sick in the head. I do the work I do, and what happens next I can’t look after.”— Louis CK, vulture.com
“I like music because when I hear it, I … I lose myself within myself, if that makes any sense. I become empty and full all at once, and I can feel the whole earth roiling around me. When I play. I’m not … for once, I’m not destroying, I’m creating.”— Sarah J. Maas, amazon.com
“You’re swimming in the transcendent twice a day, and when you swim there, the world gets bigger, and you get wet with that, and the creativity grows.”— David Lynch, interviewmagazine.com
“Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.”— Andy Warhol, amazon.com
“Husband runs off with a politician? Make good art. Leg crushed and then eaten by mutated boa constrictor? Make good art. IRS on your trail? Make good art. Cat exploded? Make good art. Somebody on the Internet thinks what you do is stupid or evil or it's all been done before? Make good art. Probably…”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“Money is necessary and great. But doing what you love, creating and the thing created, that’s ultimately far more important than the amount of zeroes in your bank account.”— Chris Lavergne, forbes.com
“I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one.”— Patti Smith, amazon.com
“What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real.”— Miranda July, amazon.com
“great writers are indecent people they live unfairly saving the best part for paper. good human beings save the world so that bastards like me can keep creating art.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“I love child things because there's so much mystery when you're a child. When you're a child, something as simple as a tree doesn't make sense. You see it in the distance and it looks small, but as you go closer, it seems to grow - you haven't got a handle on the rules when you're a child. We think…”— David Lynch, amazon.com
“Have pity on those who are fearful of taking up a pen, or a paintbrush, or an instrument, or a tool because they are afraid that someone has already done so better than they could...”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com