Creative Artists Quotes

“Whether we consider hip-hop as an evolved manifestation of the Harlem Renaissance or something completely new under the sun, it clearly has moved beyond the stage of just entertaining lives to that of informing and empowering lives.”
― Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

“Are we to conclude that these chief gods, Zeus and Yahweh, did not wish humankind to have moral consciousness and the arts of civilization? It is a mystery indeed.
The most obvious explanation is that the creative artist and poet and saint must fight the actual (as contrasted to the ideal) gods of our society—the god of conformism as well as the gods of apathy, material success, and exploitative power. These are the “idols” of our society that are worshiped by multitudes of people.”
― Rollo May, The Courage to Create

“Ever flickering between a faint glimmer and shining brightly, 
the creative artist is like a twinkling star. 
Their time of hiding in the darkness is the fuel needed 
to glow across the sky when the ‘light’ time comes. 
For them, embodying the significance of their insignificance 
by being nothing and everything simultaneously 
is the greatest poetry there is. 
Indeed, this is where the prime essence of the Human Condition lies.”
― Omar Cherif

“There is only one question to ask a creative artist; did you cheat?”
― Jack Freestone