Creativity Quotes

Where does inspiration come from? These quotes explore the mysterious process of making something new.

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"If you would create something, you must be something."
Johann Goethe
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"A man who is born with a creative mind is ambitious, industrious and bold."
Johann Goethe
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"One must still have chaos within oneself to give birth to a dancing star."
Johann Goethe
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"Creativity is the expression of the human spirit."
Johann Herder
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"Creativity is the bridge between thought and reality."
Johann Herder
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"Creativity flourishes when the mind is free from constraint."
Catharine Macaulay
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"Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural."
Friedrich Schiller
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"Nothing so much conduces to settling the imagination upon any subject as talking of it."
George Berkeley
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"Creativity knows no bounds."
Hugo Grotius
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"Creativity is divine expression."
Hugo Grotius
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"Creativity is reason expressing itself in novel and beautiful forms."
Christian Wolff
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"Creativity is the spark of the divine within us"
Jean Bodin
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"Creativity requires both freedom and discipline"
Jean Bodin
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"Creativity is the expression of the human soul."
Hugo Grotius
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"The human spirit thrives through creative expression."
Johann Herder
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"The greatest creations emerge from the intersection of passion and skill."
Johann Herder
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"The mind enslaved cannot create; thus tyranny breeds mediocrity."
Catharine Macaulay
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"If you would create something, you must be something."
Johann Goethe
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"Creativity is intelligence having fun."
Johann Goethe
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"Limitations force creativity upon us."
Johann Goethe
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"Imagination is the highest faculty of human consciousness."
Friedrich Schiller
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"To create is to participate in the divine act of bringing something new into being."
Friedrich Schiller
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"The creative act is an expression of freedom."
Hugo Grotius
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"The human heart is the cradle of all poetry and all science."
Johann Herder
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"Art and science are both flowers blooming from the garden of human experience."
Johann Herder
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"Every act of creation is an act of defiance against the limitations of existence."
Johann Herder
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"The creativity of a people is the truest measure of their civilization."
Jean Bodin
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"Creativity flourishes when minds are free from fear of punishment."
Jean Bodin
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"The greatest gift is the ability to change another's world through words."
Friedrich Schiller
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"What we plant in the soil of contemplation will grow into the fruit of action."
Friedrich Schiller