Creativity Quotes
Where does inspiration come from? These quotes explore the mysterious process of making something new.
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"Poetry is the first operation of the human mind."Giambattista Vico
"The barbarous ages produce the greatest works of imagination."Giambattista Vico
"The imagination of the poet is the precursor of the reason of the philosopher."Giambattista Vico
"The mind, when properly trained, becomes an instrument of unlimited possibility."Agrippa Heinrich Cornelius
"The creative act is an imitation of the divine act of creation."Agrippa Heinrich Cornelius
"The alchemy of the soul transforms all things to good."Paracelsus
"Creativity is the bridge between imagination and reality."Edward Wotton
"The greatest discoveries come not from certainty, but from curiosity."Cosimo de Medici
"The creative mind is a mirror of the divine mind."Girolamo Savonarola
"The mind is the greatest instrument of transformation available to us."Agrippa Heinrich Cornelius
"The greatest magic is the transformation of the self."Agrippa Heinrich Cornelius
"The mind that can imagine can eventually create."Agrippa Heinrich Cornelius
"To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination."Nicodemus Copernicus
"Creativity is intelligence having fun."Nicodemus Copernicus
"Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere."Nicodemus Copernicus
"Imagination must be grounded in observation to produce truth."Bernardino Telesio
"Creativity flourishes when grounded in careful observation."Bernardino Telesio
"The creative act is the assertion of freedom against the forces of conformity."Edward Wotton
"Creative genius is often accompanied by profound suffering."Edward Wotton
"Innovation is seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought."Cosimo de Medici
"The creative impulse is a reflection of the Divine Creator within each soul."Girolamo Savonarola
"The creative person is merely the instrument through which the Divine creates."Girolamo Savonarola
"Creativity flourishes where dogma is questioned."Nicodemus Copernicus
"Imagination guided by reason produces discovery."Andreas Vesalius
"Creativity flourishes when tradition is questioned."Andreas Vesalius
"In the marriage of intellect and intuition lies the pathway to true discovery."Agrippa Heinrich Cornelius
"To create is to partake of the divine act that birthed the universe itself."Agrippa Heinrich Cornelius
"The creative act is an echo of the original creation that brought all things into being."Agrippa Heinrich Cornelius
"The diversity of natural phenomena demands diversity in our methods of understanding."Bernardino Telesio
"To create, one must first destroy the old certainties."Cosimo de Medici