51 Inspiring Create Quotes

In an ever-evolving world where creativity fuels innovation and shapes our daily experiences, finding inspiration to spark that creative flame is more important than ever. Whether you're an artist battling a creative block, a writer looking for the right words, or simply someone seeking motivation to embark on a new project, a collection of insightful quotes can provide the necessary push to get started. This carefully curated selection of 51 inspiring quotes on creation serves as a gentle reminder of the boundless possibilities that imagination and creativity hold. Let these words of wisdom guide you, invigorate your spirit, and reignite your creative passion as you embark on the journey of bringing your ideas to life.

1. “What then are doing if not creating a better place together? I think, for me the key has to be, what do I want to create? What is it I want to leave behind?” - Alan Alda

2. “I must be lean & write & make worlds beside this to live in.” - Sylvia Plath

3. “The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine” - Karl Lagerfeld

4. “In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childish.” - Karl Lagerfeld

5. “Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.” - Karl Lagerfeld

6. “Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.” - Karl Lagerfeld

7. “Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.” - Karl Lagerfeld

8. “People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.” - Karl Lagerfeld

9. “I like to reinvent myself — it’s part of my job.” - Karl Lagerfeld

10. “I am happy.I have something to accomplish, create, and achieve.I am happy.” - Vera Nazarian

11. “Creativity is not so much a boundless well, but an all-you-can-eat buffet of elements for your creative endeavor.Eventually you've eaten your fill, and it's time to digest and then make something.But at some point, it will be time to return to the restaurant.” - Vera Nazarian

12. “You gotta be in the NOW to create and experience the WOW!” - Steve Maraboli

13. “Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

14. “Think of yourself as a brand. You need to be remembered. What will they remember you for? What defines you? If you have it in you, do something that defines you. Invent something, develop a unique skill, get noticed for something — it creates a talking point.” - Chris Arnold

15. “Believe in the magic that's in you, its potential, what it can achieve. But most of all believe in yourself and create a world where dreams become reality.” - Charlene A Wilson

16. “Laws of nature have no physical properties of mass /energy. They are platonic truths in transcendent realm that create & govern the Universe.” - Deepak Chopra

17. “Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.” - Alexandre Dumas

18. “One of the strangest things is the act of creation.You are faced with a blank slate—a page, a canvas, a block of stone or wood, a silent musical instrument.You then look inside yourself. You pull and tug and squeeze and fish around for slippery raw shapeless things that swim like fish made of cloud vapor and fill you with living clamor. You latch onto something. And you bring it forth out of your head like Zeus giving birth to Athena.And as it comes out, it takes shape and tangible form.It drips on the canvas, and slides through your pen, it springs forth and resonates into the musical strings, and slips along the edge of the sculptor’s tool onto the surface of the wood or marble.You have given it cohesion. You have brought forth something ordered and beautiful out of nothing.You have glimpsed the divine.” - Vera Nazarian

19. “Rulers are not anointed. They are created by the void of self-mastery.” - T.F. Hodge

20. “You cannot build a dream on a foundation of sand. To weather the test of storms, it must be cemented in the heart with uncompromising conviction.” - T.F. Hodge

21. “Hating skin color is contempt for God's divine creative imagination. Honoring it is appreciation for conscious, beautiful-love-inspired diversity.” - T.F. Hodge

22. “If we can write or sing or create in some way, even when we are dealing with difficulties or pain, then it becomes something bigger than ourselves — and often beautiful.” - Brenda Peterson

23. “Today, you have the opportunity to transcend from a disempowered mindset of existence to an empowered reality of purpose-driven living. Today is a new day that has been handed to you for shaping. You have the tools, now get out there and create a masterpiece.” - Steve Maraboli

24. “Quality, relevant content can't be spotted by an algorithm. You can't subscribe to it. You need people - actual human beings - to create or curate it.” - Kristina Halvorson

25. “The monster I kill every day is the monster of realism. The monster who attacks me every day is destruction. Out of the duel comes the transformation. I turn destruction into creation over and over again.” - Anais Nin

26. “Governments do not create, individuals create. Every invention was once just a thought inside someones head.” - William J Federer

27. “Quien quiera hacer de Rembrandt un pensador, un rebelde enfrentado a su época, al encontrarse ante estas obras maestras deberá admitir que la verdad más convincente para definirlo es la furia creadora, una necesidad constante e irreprimible de representar con toda libertad y de consumir la vida en esta obsesión liberadora.” - Isabel Belmonte

28. “Being in a relationship doesn’t entitle you to anything. You don’t get what you expect, you get what you create.” - Steve Maraboli

29. “It's like in someways I've been trying to create without first destroying. Is such a concept possible? For too long I have feared myself, fear what I can create. In essence, I have feared creating myself.” - Jeremy Caldwell

30. “The path you create then follow becomes the story of your life.” - Steven Redhead

31. “Create your own miracles, don't just wait for miracles to happen. Infinite possibilities exist by keeping focus on what you really want.” - Steven Redhead

32. “Don't become a puppet to other peoples desires, live and create your life as you intend it to be.” - Steven Redhead

33. “Create Your Own Miracles, don't wait for Miracles to happen.” - Steven Redhead

34. “Start living by taking back the control of your life now! Create a life more in tune with your true desires.” - Steven Redhead

35. “Open your mind to the infinite possibilities that exist for you; then create within your reality the things that you desire.” - Steven Redhead

36. “Infinite possibilities exist by keeping focus on what you really want to create your bliss.” - Steven Redhead

37. “Change is one of the most vibrant elements we can use to create a different tomorrow.” - Steven Redhead

38. “CHANGE: Don’t just talk about it, go out there and do it. Don’t just meditate about it, go out there and create it. Don’t just pray about it go out there and take action; participate in the answering of your own prayer. If you want change, get out there and live it. - Steve Maraboli” - Steve Maraboli

39. “Every creative story is different. And every creative story is the same. There was nothing. Now there is something. It's almost like magic.” - Jonah Lehrer

40. “No matter what you write, no matter how meticulous and painstaking the creation process, someone is going to laugh, scorn, and dissect your work with criticism while another quietly falls in love with it.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

41. “When you draw, you copy the world don't you? You remake it on paper, but it isn't the same. It's yours. No one else could have created it just like that. When I make poems, I use the words we all use, but the order and the sound create a new power. This wood is someone's creation. We stumble through it's tendrils, as if we're crawling through the synapses of his mind.” - Catherine Fisher

42. “Writing and drawing are very therapeutic, but they are also an excellent manifestation tool. I teach my clients to draw what they want, or to write a story about it to bring the manifestation forward into the present.” - Alice McCall

43. “If one keeps on adapting, their contribution will be limited. Theycan only imitate but never create.” - Ravindra Shukla

44. “We put our children through their paces in school not so that they will learn something, or master something, or meet any standards. No. We give them tools so that they can experience the joy, the passion, of creating. All we are doing is saying, “Here, if you know this, there is more you can make; there is another path you can map; there is another song you can compose.” School—from pre-K to postdoc programs—exists so that we can all build more from within ourselves and with our colleagues.” - Marc Aronson

45. “Words to invoke peace & awareness. Words to create freedom and fairness. Words to plant sacred seeds. and sing us back into balance.” - jay woodman

46. “I think it takes much greater courage to create things to be gone than to create things that will remain” - Christo Vladimirov Javacheff

47. “Some writers may never create a work. Their purpose is to help others create their first word.” - Darnell Lamont Walker

48. “Relax. Refresh. Renew. Play. Sing. Laugh. Enjoy. Forgive. Dance. Love. Hug. Share. Kiss. Create. Explore. Hope. Listen. Dare. Trust. Dream. Learn. TODAY!” - Steve Maraboli

49. “We can either own our circumstances and be creative in them, or we can throw up our hands and say, I cannot be held accountable because the conditions are not ideal.” - Patti Digh

50. “Fine art refers to an accomplished or advanced skill being used to testify and reveal the knowledge, ability, and wisdom of the creator. There is no art more exquisite than the work of the Master Artist Himself. Even those who choose to deny Him credit for His own creation are often engaged as an admirer of His work. Refusing to acknowledge the Source will never minimize His glory or extinguish the truth.With God’s loving guidance our life can be a great masterpiece filled with beauty, adventure, hope and purpose.” - Traci Lea LaRussa

51. “Fanfare for the MakersA cloud of witnesses. To whom? To what?To the small fire that never leaves the sky.To the great fire that boils the daily pot.To all the things we are not remembered by,Which we remember and bless. To all the thingsThat will not notice when we die,Yet lend the passing moment words and wings.So fanfare for the Makers: who composeA book of words or deeds who runs may writeAs many who do run, as a family growsAt times like sunflowers turning towards the light.As sometimes in the blackout and the raidsOne joke composed an island in the night.As sometimes one man’s kindness pervadesA room or house or village, as sometimesMerely to tighten screws or sharpen bladesCan catch a meaning, as to hear the chimesAt midnight means to share them, as one manIn old age plants an avenue of limesAnd before they bloom can smell them, before they spanThe road can walk beneath the perfected arch,The merest greenprint when the lives beganOf those who walk there with him, as in defaultOf coffee men grind acorns, as in despiteOf all assaults conscripts counter assault,As mothers sit up late night after nightMoulding a life, as miners day by dayDescend blind shafts, as a boy may flaunt his kiteIn an empty nonchalant sky, as anglers playTheir fish, as workers work and can take prideIn spending sweat before they draw their pay.As horsemen fashion horses while they ride,As climbers climb a peak because it is there,As life can be confirmed even in suicide:To make is such. Let us make. And set the weather fair.Louis Macneice” - Louis MacNeice