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Top 70 Rick Rubin Quotes (2025 Update)
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Rick Rubin Quote: “In nature, some seeds lie dormant in anticipation of the season most conducive to their growth. This is true of art as well. There are ideas whose time has not yet come. Or perhaps their time has come, but you are not yet ready to engage with them. Other times, developing a different seed may shed light on a dormant one.”

51. “In nature, some seeds lie dormant in anticipation of the season most conducive to their growth. This is true of art as well. There are ideas whose time has not yet come. Or perhaps their time has come, but you are not yet ready to engage with them. Other times, developing a different seed may shed light on a dormant one.”

Rick Rubin Quote: “Find the sustainable rituals that best support your work.”

52. “Find the sustainable rituals that best support your work.”

Rick Rubin Quote: “The goal is not to fit in. If anything, it’s to amplify the differences, what doesn’t fit, the special characteristics unique to how you see the world. Instead of sounding like others, value your own voice. Develop it.”

53. “The goal is not to fit in. If anything, it’s to amplify the differences, what doesn’t fit, the special characteristics unique to how you see the world. Instead of sounding like others, value your own voice. Develop it.”

Rick Rubin Quote: “Pay particular attention to the moments that take your breath away – a beautiful sunset, an unusual eye color, a moving piece of music, the elegant design of a complex machine.”

54. “Pay particular attention to the moments that take your breath away – a beautiful sunset, an unusual eye color, a moving piece of music, the elegant design of a complex machine.”

Rick Rubin Quote: “It’s helpful to turn those voices down so you can hear the chimes of the cosmic clock ring, reminding you it’s time. Your time to participate.”

55. “It’s helpful to turn those voices down so you can hear the chimes of the cosmic clock ring, reminding you it’s time. Your time to participate.”

Rick Rubin Quote: “How do we pick up on a signal that can neither be heard nor be defined? The answer is not to look for it. Nor do we attempt to predict or analyze our way into it. Instead, we create an open space that allows it. A space so free of the normal overpacked condition of our minds that it functions as a vacuum. Drawing down the ideas that the universe is making available.”

56. “How do we pick up on a signal that can neither be heard nor be defined? The answer is not to look for it. Nor do we attempt to predict or analyze our way into it. Instead, we create an open space that allows it. A space so free of the normal overpacked condition of our minds that it functions as a vacuum. Drawing down the ideas that the universe is making available.”

Rick Rubin Quote: “As artists, we seek to restore our childlike perception: a more innocent state of wonder and appreciation not tethered to utility or survival.”

57. “As artists, we seek to restore our childlike perception: a more innocent state of wonder and appreciation not tethered to utility or survival.”

Rick Rubin Quote: “Good habits create good art. The way we do anything is the way we do everything. Treat each choice you make, each action you take, each word you speak with skillful care. The goal is to live your life in the service of art.”

58. “Good habits create good art. The way we do anything is the way we do everything. Treat each choice you make, each action you take, each word you speak with skillful care. The goal is to live your life in the service of art.”

Rick Rubin Quote: “We are required to believe in something that doesn’t exist in order to allow it to come into being.”

59. “We are required to believe in something that doesn’t exist in order to allow it to come into being.”

Rick Rubin Quote: “When you believe the work before you is the single piece that will forever define you, it’s difficult to let go. The urge for perfection is overwhelming. It’s too much. We are frozen, and sometimes ends up convincing ourselves that discarding the entire work is the only way to move forward.”

60. “When you believe the work before you is the single piece that will forever define you, it’s difficult to let go. The urge for perfection is overwhelming. It’s too much. We are frozen, and sometimes ends up convincing ourselves that discarding the entire work is the only way to move forward.”

Rick Rubin Quote: “Consider how different your experience of the world might be if you engaged in every activity with the attention you might give to landing a plane.”

61. “Consider how different your experience of the world might be if you engaged in every activity with the attention you might give to landing a plane.”

Rick Rubin Quote: “Expressing oneself in the world and creativity are the same. It may not be possible to know who you are without somehow expressing it.”

62. “Expressing oneself in the world and creativity are the same. It may not be possible to know who you are without somehow expressing it.”

Rick Rubin Quote: “When we miss it, it really does pass us by. Tomorrow presents another opportunity for awareness, but it’s never an opportunity for the same awareness.”

63. “When we miss it, it really does pass us by. Tomorrow presents another opportunity for awareness, but it’s never an opportunity for the same awareness.”

Rick Rubin Quote: “The great artists throughout history are the ones able to maintain this childlike enthusiasm and exuberance naturally. Just as an infant is selfish, they’re protective of their art in a way that’s not always cooperative. Their needs as a creator come first. Often at the expense of their personal lives and relationships.”

64. “The great artists throughout history are the ones able to maintain this childlike enthusiasm and exuberance naturally. Just as an infant is selfish, they’re protective of their art in a way that’s not always cooperative. Their needs as a creator come first. Often at the expense of their personal lives and relationships.”

Rick Rubin Quote: “The making of art is not a competitive act. Our work is representative of the self.”

65. “The making of art is not a competitive act. Our work is representative of the self.”

Rick Rubin Quote: “The ability to look deeply is the root of creativity.”

66. “The ability to look deeply is the root of creativity.”

Rick Rubin Quote: “The reason to make art is to innovate and self-express, show something new, share what’s inside, and communicate your singular perspective.”

67. “The reason to make art is to innovate and self-express, show something new, share what’s inside, and communicate your singular perspective.”

Rick Rubin Quote: “Living life as an artist is a practice. You are either engaging in the practice or you’re not. It makes no sense to say you’re not good at it. It’s like saying, “I’m not good at being a monk.” You are either living as a monk or you’re not. We tend to think of the artist’s work as the output. The real work of the artist is a way of being in the world.”

68. “Living life as an artist is a practice. You are either engaging in the practice or you’re not. It makes no sense to say you’re not good at it. It’s like saying, “I’m not good at being a monk.” You are either living as a monk or you’re not. We tend to think of the artist’s work as the output. The real work of the artist is a way of being in the world.”

Rick Rubin Quote: “Making the simple complicated is commonplace,” Charles Mingus once said. “Making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.”

69. “Making the simple complicated is commonplace,” Charles Mingus once said. “Making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.”

Rick Rubin Quote: “If the artist is happy with the work they’re creating and the viewer is enlivened by the work they’re experiencing, it doesn’t matter if they see it in the same way.”

70. “If the artist is happy with the work they’re creating and the viewer is enlivened by the work they’re experiencing, it doesn’t matter if they see it in the same way.”

Rick Rubin Quote: “If we like what we are creating, we don’t have to know why.”

71. “If we like what we are creating, we don’t have to know why.”

Rick Rubin Quote: “To create is to bring something into existence that wasn’t there before. It could be a conversation, the solution to a problem, a note to a friend, the rearrangement of furniture in a room, a new route home to avoid a traffic jam.”

72. “To create is to bring something into existence that wasn’t there before. It could be a conversation, the solution to a problem, a note to a friend, the rearrangement of furniture in a room, a new route home to avoid a traffic jam.”

Rick Rubin Quote: “When we’re making things we love, our mission is accomplished.”

73. “When we’re making things we love, our mission is accomplished.”

Rick Rubin Quote: “Our point of view, not our drawing skills or musical virtuosity or ability to tell a story.”

74. “Our point of view, not our drawing skills or musical virtuosity or ability to tell a story.”

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