Creativity Quotes

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

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"Creativity is the divine spark within us, reflecting the Creator's work."
Jonathan Edwards
"The creative act is an echo of the infinite Creator."
Charles Wesley
"Creativity blooms in the soil of curiosity and wonder."
Charles Wesley
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"Imagination is the faculty through which the Divine speaks to the creative spirit."
George Fox
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"You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star."
Friedrich Nietzsche
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"One must have deep chaos within to birth a dancing culture."
Friedrich Nietzsche
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"Creativity is the rebellion of the soul."
Friedrich Nietzsche
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"Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way."
William James
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"Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making."
William James
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"The creative force flows through willing vessels of the spirit."
Jacob Böhme
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"The creative impulse is the heartbeat of existence itself."
Jacob Böhme
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"The creative force flows through humble and willing hearts."
Jacob Böhme
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"Creativity is the expression of divine intelligence flowing through human consciousness."
Emanuel Swedenborg
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"Every word is a universe."
Ibn Arabi
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"To create is to participate in divinity."
Ibn Arabi
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"Those who think from reason alone can create new ideas."
Emanuel Swedenborg
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"Creativity flows when the ego steps aside and lets spirit work."
Jacob Böhme
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"Creativity is the divine force expressing itself through human hands."
Jacob Böhme
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"For the proper alchemist nothing is tiny."
Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
"Creativity is the reflection of our humanity and our likeness to the divine."
Charles Wesley
"Creativity flourishes when we give ourselves permission to imagine beyond limits."
Charles Wesley
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"To create is to participate in the divine act of existence."
Ibn Arabi
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"Creativity flows through those who surrender to it."
Ibn Arabi
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"Creativity arises when the mind conceives of itself as active rather than passive."
Spinoza
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"Every person is a unique expression of divine creativity."
Emanuel Swedenborg
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"Creativity emerges when we free ourselves from the fear of judgment."
Emanuel Swedenborg
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"Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off."
Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
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"When you do things from the soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy."
Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
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"Passion makes the old medicine new."
Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
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"Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul."
Teresa of Avila