Creativity Quotes

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

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"Innovation requires the recklessness to abandon the securities of tradition."
Aristarchus
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"The creative mind sees possibilities where others see obstacles."
Xenophon
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"What has once been well said will be thought peculiar if said again."
Thucydides
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"Necessity is the mother of all innovation."
Thucydides
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"Diversity is the spice of life"
Herodotus
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"Innovation comes from the clash of ideas"
Herodotus
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"Words are like money; the less used, the greater their value."
Thucydides
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"How can I weave songs of my lady while my hands are bound?"
Sappho
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"The creative force is strongest when the body is in harmony with the mind."
Hippocrates
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"To create is to participate in the divine work of the universe."
Pindar
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"Creativity is the rebellion of the spirit against the tyranny of limitation."
Pindar
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"To create is to participate in the work of the divine."
Xenophon
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"Necessity is the mother of invention."
Aesop
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"Curiosity is the engine of achievement."
Herodotus
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"To create is to assert that life is worth living."
Sappho
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"In every woman dwells a poet, waiting for permission to speak."
Sappho
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"To create art is to birth a piece of one's soul into the world."
Sappho
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"The creative mind sees possibilities where others see only obstacles."
Pindar
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"Creativity is the act of bringing something from nothing into existence."
Pindar
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"Creativity flows from understanding."
Anaxagoras
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"Creativity is the mark of understanding."
Anaxagoras
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"All diversity in nature springs from the infinite variety of atomic arrangements."
Leucippus
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"To create is to touch the mind of the eternal."
Pindar
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"What we create with our hands reflects what dwells in our hearts"
Sappho
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"What we plant in consciousness blooms in reality"
Sappho
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"The creative force of nature works through the same principles in all things."
Anaximenes
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"Creativity flows from the intersection of knowledge and imagination."
Xenophanes
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"The creative mind finds solutions where others see only obstacles."
Xenophanes
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"To create is to participate in the work of the gods themselves."
Pindar
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"The mixture of qualities is infinite in possibility."
Anaxagoras