24 Creativity Quotes to Bring Out Your Inner Artist

Below you'll find some quick inspiration from a blog in today's (June 6) Creativity Connections paper. For more, see the Creativity tab above.

Writes blogger Ciara Conlon:

I believe a life free from creativity is a life free from joy. Our creativity is the essence of who we are. We have a responsibility to ourselves and to the world to feed from our personal well of inventiveness and imagination.

Here are a few quotations from her blog:

• “Every child is an artist, the problem is staying an artist when you grow up” – Pablo Picasso
• “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” – Scott Adams
• “Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts” – Rita Mae Brown
• “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
• “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” — Maya Angelou
• “The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.” — John Maynard Keynes

Conlon concludes:

So live life a little more today, dance, sing, play and love. See the beauty in life and you will bring out the beauty from within.