Kat Von D Quotes

Telling people how to be creative is easy - being creative is difficult.

I don't know where creativity comes from, but I think everybody has the ability to be creative. I think what's important about creativity starts when you're very young and how we're allowed to experience our imagination. The people who bring us up and teach us are fundamental in either encouraging creativity or discourging creativity. My imagination was always encouraged.

Your creativity is waiting for you like a dancing partner.

I want to create. I think that's the one word I can grow on.

The stage sharpened my creative instrument and encouraged me to go deeper and try new things.

The ultimate point of a piece for me is that it drives the next one. Does it open new doors? That's the success of a piece.

What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.

I don't understand how people live without creating.

If you're any kind of artist, you've got to ... keep opening yourself to new possibilities.

Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all.

When we treat children's play as seriously as it deserves, we are helping them feel the joy that's to be found in the creative spirit. We're helping ourselves stay in touch with that spirit, too. It's the things we play withand the people who help us play that make a great difference in our lives.

My imagination is a kind of animal. So what I do is keep it alive.

If you had only truth, goodness, and harmony on your side, and the complete absence of the other, there would be no creative impulse.

The creative mind plays with the object it loves.

My ideas and creativity are the sources of inspiration for me.

Jean Renoir once suggested that most true creators have only one idea and spend their lives reworking it, but then very rapidly he added that most people don't have any ideas at all, so one idea is pretty amazing.

There is no such thing as creative and non-creative people, only people who use their creativity and people who don't.

Creativity is our true nature; blocks are an unnatural thwarting of a process at once as normal and as miraculous as the blossoming of a flower at the end of a slender green stem.

I'm a sponge, the more I absorb, the more I am able to articulate my vision, as artists do, like Picasso. I'm an artist in that light. I went from being an artist to an artiste.

Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.

The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.

Don't just consume things, create things

It's only those exceptional and rare individuals who have brilliant ideas delivered to them by the muse, complete and gift wrapped. The rest of us have to work at it.

The joy of creating is the truest joy.