“Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.”— Stella Adler, amazon.com
“I, too, am beginning to feel an immense need to become a savage and create a new world.”— August Strindberg, amazon.com
“The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will… but then again, if you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all.”— John Green, amazon.com
“The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.”— Frank Barron, goodreads.com
“One does not think during creative work any more than one thinks when driving a car. But one has a background of years – learning, unlearning, success, failure, dreaming, thinking, experience, all this – then the moment of creation, the focusing of all into the moment.”— Edward Weston, amazon.com
“To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.”— Kurt Vonnegut, amazon.com
“I find it so much easier to be creatively free at night. Daytime is for sleeping. Nighttime is the best time for making art. The later at night it gets the further into another world you go.”— Mark Ryden, markryden.com
“It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night.”— Edgar Allan Poe, amazon.com
“Sit as little as possible; do not believe any idea that was not born in the open air and of free movement.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“In the media sea of this generation, we become so used to wanting something and as long as we have the money, we can get it right away. There's so many tutorials out there that show you simple techniques we all do to our art to make it look a little bit better or cooler to the average person. But th…”— Bobby Chiu, youtube.com
“Think of it this way: the more info that we get, the more options we get, the more knowledge we get, and the much higher chance of evolving to a level that perhaps would be unreachable any other way.”— Bobby Chiu, youtube.com
“When I say be creative, I don’t mean that you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply mean let your life be a painting, let your life be a poem.”— Osho, amazon.com