Esther Hicks Quotes

The downside of videos is that it will put my vision in front of other people, so they might not get the chance to create their own.

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.

I think the key to great art and great artists is to just fully be yourself and not be scared of that, and be the extremes of your personality. Show the extremes of your personality and embrace the imperfections. Embrace the things about yourself that you might not like.

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

As long as you're true to you, you believe it and you make others believe it, then what you're doing is just art. If you give everybody a blank canvas and some paint, not everybody's picture is going to be exactly the same, but it's still art. I just do what I do.

Just trying to be different - when I hear something - I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds.

My creativity is an entity unto its own.

I'm a creative person, and I'm gonna be creative, so whoever's upset because of that, that's too bad.

That the best piece of art a person is capable of making is the one that only they could create.

Don't always be appraising yourself, wondering if you are better or worse than other writers. "I will not Reason and Compare," said Blake; "my business is to Create." Besides, since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of Time, you are incomparable.

It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how valuable it is, nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.

I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me.

It's time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map. Stop settling for what's good enough and start creating art that matters.

Each musical finds its own way.

Creators care nothing for their systems except that they be unique.

I'm not trying to stay in the same place and I'm not trying to compete with what's currently in fashion. That would be dishonest. But, at the same time, I'm different and the music reflects that to some degree.

I have my own voice and can focus only on that. I know what I like; I find my inspirations in so many other places than just online and bring that into my work.

My style is ambiguous and lucid. I wish to be signified but not summed up. I don't want to have to go over the top each time.

My job is to just express something that I want to express. And if I'm ahead or behind the curve, that's for others to decide.

No age is compelled to take its beauty from preceding epochs.

But I'm the only one who can paint the moon, because I'm the only one who knows whether that's right or not.

The freedom of every artist is essential.

Every song, every form of art, clothing, shoes, it has to be special.

Don't try to write what other people are writing - write what is true to you.

The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.