I Want To Do Something Creative But I Don T Know What

Want creative kids? Check out this list of 100 quotes on art and creativity to inspire your young artist!

Do you have an aspiring artist who needs a bit of inspiration now and then in his or her creating? Why not let them hear from the great masters (as well as the lesser-known creatives)? I've compiled a list of 100 quotes on art and creativity to encourage or motivate them when the struggle gets real.

In fact, it would be a great idea for them to find one or more quotes that truly speak to them and then create their own work of art using those words:

1. "Every child is an artist; the problem is staying an artist when you grow up" – Pablo Picasso
2. "If you hear a voice within you say, 'You cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced" – Vincent Van Gogh
3. "Creativity takes courage." – Henri Matisse
4. "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
5. "Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better." – Andre Gide
6. "We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents." – Bob Ross
7. "Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen." – Leonardo da Vinci
8. "Every artist was first an amateur." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
9. "There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people." – Vincent van Gogh
10. "Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." – Pablo Picasso
11. "Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment." – Claude Monet
12. "I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way – things I had no words for." – Georgia O'Keeffe
13. "I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men." – Albrecht Dürer
14. "Art is not what you see, but what you make others see." – Edgar Degas
15. "In art, what we want is the certainty that one spark of original genius shall not be extinguished." – Mary Cassatt
16. "A work of art which isn't based on feeling isn't art at all." – Paul Cézanne
17. "Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it." – Ai Weiwei
18. "Creativity is contagious, pass it on." – Albert Einstein
19. "Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity." – Maya Angelou
20. "Have no fear of perfection, you'll never reach it." – Salvador Dali
21. "You can't wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club." – Jack London
22. "Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last, you create what you will." – George Bernard Shaw
23. "Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity." – Charles Mingus
24. "Originality is nothing but judicious imitation." – Voltaire
25. "Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things." – Ray Bradbury
26. "Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while." – Steve Jobs
27. "Creativity is a drug I cannot live without." – Cecil B. DeMille
28. "You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not'?" – George Bernard Shaw
29. "You can't use up creativity. The more the you use, the more you have." –Maya Angelou
30. "Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks." – Yo-Yo Ma
31. "It is wise to learn; it is God-like to create." – John Saxe
32. "Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous." – Bill Moyers
33. "Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm." – Earl Nightingale
34. "Creative work is a gift to the world and every being in it. Don't cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you've got." – Steven Pressfield
35. "Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." – Scott Adams
36. "Art is the stored honey of the human soul." – Theodore Dreiser
37. "Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time." – Thomas Merton
38. "Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do." – Edgar Degas
39. "I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment." – David Rockefeller
40. "To practice any art, no matter how well or how badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. So do it." – Kurt Vonnegut
41. "The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live only as you can." – Neil Gaiman
42. "Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas." – Donatella Versace
43. "I am seeking. I am striving. I am in it with all my heart." – Vincent van Gogh
44. "If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint." – Edward Hopper
45. "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." – Andy Warhol
46. "Great art picks up where nature ends." – Marc Chagall
47. "The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel." – Piet Mondrian
48. "Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing." – Salvador Dali
49. "The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery." – Francis Bacon
50. "To create one's own world takes courage." – Georgia O'Keeffe
51. "The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live." – Auguste Rodin
52. "It is important to express oneself…provided the feelings are real and are taken from you own experience." – Berthe Morisot
53. "To be an artist is to believe in life." – Henry Moore
54. "Every good painter paints what he is." – Jackson Pollock
55. "In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
56. "Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing.  Making your unknown known is the important thing." – Georgia O'Keeffe
57. "What moves men of genius, or rather what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough." – Eugene Delacroix
58. "Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing." – Marc Chagall
59. "Don't be an art critic, but paint, there lies salvation." – Paul Cézanne
60. "If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing." – Marc Chagall
61. "A good artist has less time than ideas." – Martin Kippenberger
62. "I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality." – Frida Kahlo
63. "I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also, I have to earn my living, and occupy myself." – Francis Bacon
64. "There is no must in art because art is free." – Wassily Kandinsky
65. "Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master." – Leonardo da Vinci
66. "If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all." – Michelangelo
67. "Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye, it also includes the inner pictures of the soul." – Edvard Munch
68. "Painting is a means of self-enlightenment." – John Olsen
69. "Art is the only way to run away without leaving home." – Twyla Tharp
70. "An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one." – Charles Horton Cooley
71. "One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself." –Leonardo da Vinci
72. "The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance." – Aristotle
73. "No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist." – Oscar Wilde
74. "Painting is just another way of keeping a diary." – Pablo Picasso
75. "Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one." – Stella Adler
76. "I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say, 'he feels deeply, he feels tenderly." – Vincent Van Gogh
77. "Art is a lie that makes us realize truth." – Pablo Picasso
78. "An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision." – James McNeill Whistler
79. "Great things are done by a series of small things brought together." – Vincent Van Gogh
80. "Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working." – Pablo Picasso
81. "The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep." – Paul Strand
82. "Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." – Dr. Seuss
83. "If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle." – Albrecht Dürer
84. "It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child." – Pablo Picasso
85. "Art is never finished, only abandoned." – Leonardo Da Vinci
86. "Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it." – Andy Warhol
87. "If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud." – Émile Zola
88. "I dream of painting and then I paint my dream." – Vincent Van Gogh
89. "The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless." – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
90. "A man paints with his brains and not with his hands." – Michelangelo
91. "The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable." – Robert Henri
92. "I invent nothing, I rediscover." – Auguste Rodin
93. "I would rather die of passion than of boredom." – Vincent van Gogh
94. "Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures." – Henry Ward Beecher
95. "The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense." – Pablo Picasso
96. "Creativity is magic. Don't examine it too closely." – Edward Albee
97. "Art is not a thing, it is a way." – Elbert Hubbard
98. "Color is the place where our brain and the universe meet." – Paul Klee
99. "Art is a line around your thoughts." – Gustav Klimt
100. "Learn the rules like a pro so you can break them like an artist." – Pablo Picasso

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