To brighten your day or inspire your art: 22 quotes from artists and writers about art and creativity.

 You can't use up creativity. The more you use the more you have.  - Maya Angelou

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Whether or not you succeed is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing. - Georgia O'Keeffe

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What keeps my heart awake is colorful silence. - Claude Monet 

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To the artist, daydreaming is as important as food and drink. - William Esper 

There are always flowers for those who want to see them. - Henri Matisse 

The sun will not rise or set without my notice, and thanks.  - Winslow Homer 

The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches.  - ee cummings 

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The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. - Pablo Picasso 

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. - Arthur Ashe 

See  more of Pia De Girolamo's work here.

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. - Pablo Picasso 

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Knowing how to look is a way of inventing. - Savador Dali

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.  - Henry David Thoreau 

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I guess I'm a little weird. I like to talk to trees and animals. That's okay, though; I have more fun than most people.  - Bob Ross 

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake...by an infinite expectation of the dawn. - Henry David Thoreau 

There is always light, if only we're brave enough to see it.  If only we're brave enough to be it." - Amanda Gorman

See more of Gayle Stott Lowry's work here.

The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between. - Woflgang Amadeus Mozart 

See more of D. George Prisbe-Przbysz's work here.

The great artist is the simplifier. - Vincent Van Gogh 

Perhaps the mission an artist is to interpret beauty to people--the beauty within themselves. - Langston Hughes 

See more of Albert Neal's work here.

I've just kept on ceaselessly painting in order to learn painting. - Vincent Van Gogh 

I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free. - Georgia O'keeffe 

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-Exupery 

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...And then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough? - Vincent Van Gogh