Top 200 Creative Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.”

— Jeanette Winterson

102. “To me, photography is about finding something interesting in an ordinary place. I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.”

— Elliott Erwitt

103. “Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

104. “We’re all stories, in the end.”

— Steven Moffat

105. “And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.”

— William Shakespeare

106. “Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, Or what’s a heaven for?”

— Robert Browning

107. “Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.”

— Jean Paul

108. “Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.”

— Neil Gaiman

109. “Do not fear mistakes. There are none.”

— Miles Davis

110. “Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.”

— Pablo Picasso

111. “Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”

— J.K. Rowling

112. “Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.”

— Michelangelo

113. “Earth: mostly harmless.”

— Douglas Adams

114. “Nothing can save you except writing. It keeps the walls from failing.”

— Charles Bukowski

115. “You can’t blend in when you were born to stand out.”

— R. J. Palacio

116. “Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.”

— Douglas Adams

117. “Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.”

— William Shakespeare

118. “You fail only if you stop writing.”

— Ray Bradbury

119. “There is a field beyond all notions of right and wrong. Come, meet me there.”

— Rumi

120. “We don’t make mistakes, just happy little accidents.”

— Bob Ross

121. “I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”

— Vincent van Gogh

122. “We have nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore – except to make our lives into a work of art.”

— Lana Del Rey

123. “Look, up at the sky. There is a light, a beauty up there, that no shadow can touch.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

124. “A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away.”

— Eudora Welty

125. “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.”

— Maya Angelou

126. “And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

127. “You have been a prisoner of a little pond. I am the ocean and its turbulent flood. Come, merge with me, leave this world of ignorance.”

— Rumi

128. “Nobody is a villain in their own story. We’re all the heroes of our own stories.”

— George R.R. Martin

129. “Whatever it takes to finish things, finish. You will learn more from a glorious failure than you ever will from something you never finished.”

— Neil Gaiman

130. “I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I’m afraid of. ”

— Joss Whedon

131. “To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.”

— Thomas A. Edison

132. “I write to discover what I know.”

— Flannery O'Connor

133. “A lamp can only light another lamp when it continues to burn in its own flame.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

134. “Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.”

— Sergei Rachmaninoff

135. “Do a good job. You don’t have to worry about the money; it will take care of itself. Just do your best work then try to trump it.”

— Walt Disney

136. “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”

— Steve Martin

137. “You have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.”

— Taylor Swift

138. “We do not remember days, we remember moments.”

— Cesare Pavese

139. “Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”

— Neil Gaiman

140. “Imagination is the most marvelous, miraculous, inconceivably powerful force the world has ever known.”

— Napoleon Hill

141. “You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.”

— Ansel Adams

142. “Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.”

— Hermann Hesse

143. “Due to circumstances beyond my control, I am master of my fate and captain of my soul.”

— Ashleigh Brilliant

144. “Dance, and make joyous the love around you. Dance, and your veils which hide the Light shall swirl in a heap at your feet.”

— Rumi

145. “A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.”

— Terry Pratchett

146. “We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

147. “There’s no such thing as being alone in the universe, and so there’s no such thing as creating alone. Everything – every impulse, every creative gift of beauty, everything is a co-creation.”

— Gary Zukav

148. “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”

— William Shakespeare

149. “One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

150. “And your very flesh shall be a great poem.”

— Walt Whitman