Creativity Quotes

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

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"I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better."
Coco Chanel
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"Fashion is not necessarily something that goes on bodies. Fashion is in the air. It's the wind that blows new ideas."
Coco Chanel
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"Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the mediocre are always assured of a majority."
Coco Chanel
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"Women must tell themselves: 'I am not trying to imitate him, I am trying to create myself.'"
Coco Chanel
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"The real danger for any artist is not following your immediate feeling."
Coco Chanel
"Creativity takes courage."
Lorenzo de Medici
"Creativity is intelligence having fun."
Lorenzo de Medici
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"The varnish is merely the instrument's final confession."
Antonio Stradivari
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"A violin reflects the builder's soul more accurately than any mirror."
Antonio Stradivari
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"I am merely a servant of the music that wishes to be born."
Antonio Stradivari
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"The varnish is not a coating; it is a signature written in amber."
Antonio Stradivari
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"To craft is to participate in the creation of the world itself."
Antonio Stradivari
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"I have always believed that passion is the engine of great art."
Ismail Merchant
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"Creativity cannot be forced, only invited and welcomed."
Ismail Merchant
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"The power of innovation lies in observing what others overlook and perfecting what others abandon."
Josiah Wedgwood
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"The mind that questions convention is the mind that invents the future."
Josiah Wedgwood
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"The greatest glory of Florence can be neither arms nor buildings, so much as the wit of her children."
Cosimo Medici
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"Creativity takes courage."
Cosimo Medici
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"Creativity is intelligence having fun."
Cosimo Medici
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"Innovation separates the rich from the poor"
Jacob Fugger
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"Creativity solves what routine cannot"
Jacob Fugger
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"To create beauty is to leave something eternal in a mortal world."
Giovanni Medici
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"The most creative solutions come from those desperate enough to try anything."
Giovanni Medici
"What we think, we become."
Lorenzo de Medici
"The mind is everything; what you think, you become."
Lorenzo de Medici
"Creativity takes courage."
Lorenzo de Medici
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"The pursuit of perfection is not vanity—it is the highest form of respect for one's craft."
Josiah Wedgwood
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"The hands can express what the tongue cannot."
Josiah Wedgwood
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"I employ my hands and mind in equal measure for the creation of beauty."
Josiah Wedgwood
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"What we create endures longer than what we conquer."
Cosimo Medici