30 Creative People Quotes: Unleash Your Inner Genius

As someone who’s often doubted my own creative abilities, I recently stumbled upon a goldmine of creative people quotes that reminded me that we’re all capable of tapping into our inner genius.

It got me thinking: Why do we often hold ourselves back from exploring our creative sides?

Maybe it’s the little voice inside our heads that whispers,

“You’re not an artist.”
“You’re not creative enough.”

But as I delved deeper into these quotes for creative people, I realised that creativity comes in all shapes and forms, and it’s not just reserved for those with a paintbrush in hand or a bestselling novel under their belt.

As the BBC’s arts editor, Will Gompertz, eloquently explains in his book, “Think Like an Artist: How to Live a Happier, Smarter, More Creative Life,” creativity isn’t just for the select few.

Whether we’re cooking up a storm in the kitchen, solving problems in our businesses, or penning our next blog post, we’re all capable of creative brilliance.

To help you silence that nagging inner critic, I’ve compiled a list of quotes from Gompertz’s book that will undoubtedly inspire you to believe in your own creative prowess.

Let these wise words from renowned artists and thinkers motivate you to push past self-doubt and pursue your passion with relentless determination.

(Full credit for the quotes collection goes to Think Like an Artist: How to Live a Happier, Smarter, More Creative Life by Will Gompertz.)

When bankers dine together, they discuss art, when artists dine together, they discuss money.
– Oscar Wilde

Quotes About Creative Mind and Creative People

Good business is the best art.
– Andy Warhol

It’s absolutely my duty to try to make money by my work.
– Vincent van Gogh

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

I proceed by trial and error.
– Bridget Riley

In art one is either a plagiarist or a revolutionary.
– Paul Gauguin

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them and pretty soon you have a dozen.
– John Steinbeck

Creative Mind Quotes for Creative People

Big ideas come from the unconscious. But your unconscious has to be well informed, or your idea will be irrelevant.
– David Ogilvy

If it doesn’t sell, it isn’t creative.
– David Ogilvy

Make the world to believe in you and to pay heavily for this privilege.
– Gibert & George

There is no new thing under the sun.
– Ecclesiastes 1:9

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
– Pablo Picasso

Good artists copy, great artists steal.
– Pablo Picasso

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.
– Voltaire

If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
– Isaac Newton

Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
– Albert Einstein

It’s not where you take things from, it’s where you take them to.
– Jean-Lac Godard

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don’t need.
– Auguste Rodin

The most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself.
– George Eliot

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
– Oscar Wilde

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
– Ansel Adams

An artwork should point in more than one direction.
– Luc Tuymans

What makes men of genius, or rather what inspires the work, are not new ideas; instead they are pressed by the idea that what has been said has not been said enough.
– Eugene Delacroix