Feeling uninspired? Soak up these creativity quotes and summon your muses.
Lately, I’ve been in a major creativity slump. This is natural, of course, since creativity ebbs and flows depending on factors like season and circumstance. Still, I feel my best when my imagination is in overdrive and I’m excited to share myself with the world.
Whenever I’m lacking inspiration, I turn to quotes as a means of motivation. There’s something about a good quote that never fails to lift my spirits; I think it’s because it’s so resonant, and as a reader, I feel as if it was written especially for me.
No matter how you create–whether you’re a writer, actor, singer, artist, lawyer, or doctor–I think at least one of these creativity quotes will speak to you.
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“Creativity – like human life itself – begins in darkness.” -Julia Cameron
“Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living.” -John Cage
“Creativity is a crushing chore and a glorious mystery. The work wants to be made, and it wants to be made through you.” -Elizabeth Gilbert
“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.” -Oscar Wilde
“I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.” -Albert Einstein
“That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.” -Ray Bradbury
“Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos.” -Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
“Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity.” -T.S. Eliot
“At the edge of madness, you howl diamonds and pearls.” -Aberjhan
“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Which of these creativity quotes inspires you?
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