Creating stuff is HARD. As much as we’d all love our creative energy to flow in one endlessly gushing stream, sometimes all you get is a trickle, a slow drip… or even a completely dry spell. It can be tough to find your groove again and often, it seems like the more you try and force it, the less inspired you end up feeling.
Maybe you’re on the brink of blogger burnout or maybe there’s no specific reason you’re feeling this way at all. No matter what the reason, it happens to all of us from time to time. The next time you feel like you’re in a creative rut, remember to take it easy on yourself with the help of these quotes.
25+ quotes when you’re in a creative rut:
The creative process is a process of surrender, not control. – Julia Cameron
Indulge your imagination. – Jane Austen
The reason that art (writing, engaging, and all of it) is valuable is precisely why I can’t tell you how to do it. If there were a map, there’d be no art, because art is the act of navigating without a map. – Seth Godin
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things. – Ray Bradbury
Mistakes are the portals of discovery. – James Joyce
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. – Henry David Thoreau
Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard. – Anne Sexton
Don’t ask what the world needs, ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. – Howard Thurman
The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. – Sylvia Plath
Everything’s already been said, but since nobody was listening, we have to start again. – André Gide
The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones. – John Maynard Keynes
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. – Vincent Van Gogh
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. – Elbert Hubbard
Dance first, think later. – Samuel Beckett
The work wants to be made and it wants to be made through you. – Elizabeth Gilbert
Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working. – Pablo Picasso
If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing. – Marc Chagall
A piece of art is never a finished work. It answers a question which has been asked, and asks a new question. – Robert Engman
When you’ve exhausted all the possibilities, remember this: you haven’t. – Thomas Edison
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. – Joseph Chilton Pearce
Inspiration comes and goes, creativity is the result of practice. – Phil Cousineau
The whole culture is telling you to hurry, while the art tells you to take your time. Always listen to the art. – Junot Diaz
Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing. – Georgia O’Keeffe
Do not fear mistakes—there are none. – Miles Davis
Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever — MAKE. – Joss Whedon
We have this idea that we need to be in the mood to write. We don’t. – Julia Cameron
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Have you been in a creative rut? What helped you find inspiration again?
