Creative Block Quotes for Artists and Writers

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.

Creativity is intelligence having fun.

You cannot use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts.

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.

The first draft of anything is shit.

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.

Creativity takes courage.

Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything really good.

Write hard and clear about what hurts.

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.

Just paint a little bit every day. That's it.

The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Do not wait. The time will never be just right.

Stop trying to be perfect. Start trying to be honest.

A blank page is just permission to begin.

Make bad art. Then make more.

Show up. Some days that is the whole job.

Don't get it right. Just get it written.

Every artist was first an amateur.

A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.

The scariest moment is always just before you start.

The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul.

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

You will never have this day again, so make it count.

The world always seems brighter when you've just made something.