Creativity & Humor

Art & Expression quotes

Quotes about making things, finding your voice and creative nerve.

• Art is not a thing; it is a way.

  Elbert HubbardCopy

• Almost throwing something away is often the sign it mattered.

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• Humming a tune or rearranging a shelf, expression takes many shapes.

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• You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

  George Bernard ShawCopy

• Handwriting is a signature no one else can copy.

  RisoraCopy

• Every unfinished sketch still teaches your hand something the finished ones can't.

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• Make something today simply because you feel like it.

  RisoraCopy

• Doodles in the margin count as much as paintings on a wall.

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• Every artist was first an amateur.

  Ralph Waldo EmersonCopy

• Every blank page is an invitation, not a test.

  RisoraCopy

• Permission to create was never anyone else's to give.

  RisoraCopy

• A first draft only needs to exist, not impress anyone.

  RisoraCopy

A sample of 12 from the 20 Art & Expression quotes in the app. Named authors are shown as in the app; lines marked Risora are our own writing.