5 Good Quotes by Creative Women

shop Morgan Harper Nichols

Sometimes it helps to refer to other people’s words, whether they be from mentors, mothers, sisters or even historical figures that we’ve long admired. When a woman works within a creative society, she is not only building herself, but struggling to be seen and heard - maybe more so than any other industry.

The words I listen to and take notes on usually come from women who have had to go through adversities and they share the lessons they have learned.

“It’s through mistakes that you actually grow. You have to get bad in order to get good.”

- Paula Scher, American graphic designer, painter and art instructor in design

The Diva is Dismissed, 1994 by Paula Scher (credit: MoMA)

“I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.”

- Georgia O’Keeffe, American modernist artist

Frida Kahlo, Self-portrait with monkeys 1943. The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection of Mexican Art © 2016 Banco de Mexico Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico DF

“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it's true I'm here, and I'm just as strange as you. “

- Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter

“You were once wild here. Don’t let them tame you.”

- Isadora Duncan, American dancer who pioneered modern dance

“For people who have been ostracized, who have been all the way at the bottom, there's only one way that we can go - and that's up.”

- Michaela Antonia Jaé Rodriguez, American actress and singer

*credit: InStyle

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