I love quotes, so here are 52 of my favourite inspirational quotes to celebrate a New Year... Enjoy!
Have a Vision, a Dream. Believe in that Vision. Live that Vision with every fibre of your being. ~ Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage. ~ Georgia O'Keeffe
Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world. ~ Paulo Coelho
True art is characterised by an irresistible urge in the creative artist. ~ Albert Einstein
I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing that I wanted to do. ~ Georgia O'Keeffe
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. ~ E.E. Cummings
Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing. ~ Georgia O'Keeffe
Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees. ~ Marcel Proust
Art is not a thing, it is a way. ~ Elbert Hubbard
Art is when you hear a knocking from your soul — and you answer. ~ Terri Guillemets
How we spend our days is how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour and with that one, is what we are doing. ~ Annie Dillard
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
To be an artist is to believe in life. ~ Henry Moore
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. ~ Anaïs Nin
You cannot find happiness by chasing after it. Happiness comes from doing what you love to do, and from being who you truly are. ~ Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. ~ Oscar Wilde
The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. ~ Leo Buscaglia
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. ~ Emerson
Do not compromise yourself. You are all you have got. ~ Janis Joplin
If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it’s not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That’s why it’s your path. ~ Joseph Campbell
Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are. ~ Kurt Cobain
The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones. ~ John Maynard Keynes
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. ~ G.B. Shaw
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. ~ W. M. Lewis.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. ~ Leonardo da Vinci
No artist tolerates reality. ~ Nietzsche
There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth… not going all the way, and not starting. ~ Buddha
Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect. ~ Alan Cohen
Patience is also a form of action. ~ Auguste Rodin
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. ~ Theodore Roosevelt
We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about. ~ Joseph Campbell
The object isn’t to make art, it’s to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable. ~ Robert Henri
Be faithful to that which exists within yourself. ~ André Gide
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. ~ Steve Jobs
Success in any endeavour depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self. ~ Ralph Marston
Your best work is your expression of yourself. Now, you may not be the greatest at it, but when you do it, you're the only expert. ~ Frank Gehry
At the end of your brush is the tip of your soul. ~ Andrew Hamilton
The goal of art was the vital expression of self. ~ Alfred Stieglitz
We express our art in everything we say, everything we feel, and everything we do. The creation is ongoing, it is endless, it is happening in every moment. ~ Don Miguel Ruiz
The beginning is the most important part of the work. ~ Plato
The chief enemy of creativity is good sense. ~ Pablo Picasso
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. ~ Thornton Wilder
To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive. ~ Matthew Arnold
The things that make me different are the things that make me. ~ A. A. Milne
Creativity is intelligence having fun. ~ Albert Einstein
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
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. ~ Albert Einstein
Expression is the essence of thought. ~ Tony Caldero
Everything you can imagine is real. ~ Pablo Picasso
A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown. ~ Denis Waitley
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder. ~ E.B. White
When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be. ~ Patanjali