Creativity Quotes

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

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"I never made the same instrument twice, yet all are my children."
Antonio Stradivari
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"In every instrument lives the breath of the maker."
Antonio Stradivari
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"The maker's hands are secondary; the maker's vision is everything."
Antonio Stradivari
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"I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not have would come to me."
Coco Chanel
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"Fashion is not necessarily something that comes from fashion designers anymore. Fashion comes from deep within society."
Coco Chanel
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"My life didn't please me, so I created my life."
Coco Chanel
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"The most important thing is to find your own voice."
Coco Chanel
"I believe in the transformative power of vision."
Charles Yerkes
"The greatest discoveries are made by those who dare to dream."
Charles Yerkes
"The creative mind is like a river—it must flow freely or it becomes stagnant."
Lorenzo de Medici
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"To create is to participate in the divine act of bringing order from chaos."
Giovanni Medici
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"A document unsigned is merely a dream; a signature makes it destiny."
Jacob Fugger
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"The greatest invention is not a new technology, but a new way of thinking."
Jacob Fugger
"The creative mind is the free mind."
Lorenzo de Medici
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"The creative act is an act of rebellion against mediocrity."
Cosimo Medici
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"To create is to assert one's humanity against the void."
Cosimo Medici
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"The mind is everything. What you think you become."
James Hill
"I build because I cannot help but create and dominate."
Charles Yerkes
"I am motivated not by gratitude but by the hunger for more."
Charles Yerkes
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"To create is to participate in the divine act of bringing something new to existence."
Giovanni Medici
"The creator and the created are partners in the work of becoming."
Lorenzo de Medici
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"The most creative solutions emerge from the collision of diverse thoughts."
James Hill
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"Creativity flows from the freedom to fail."
Cosimo Medici
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"Innovation requires imagination and courage."
Thomas Fortune Ryan
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"Creativity is the spark of innovation."
Thomas Fortune Ryan
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"I believe that creativity in business comes from the same source as creativity in art: freedom to imagine boldly."
Jacob Fugger
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"The creative impulse is the highest expression of human nature."
William Rockefeller
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"Creativity is the highest human faculty; it mirrors the divine act of creation."
William Rockefeller
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"Every problem contains within it the seed of an equivalent opportunity."
Edward Harriman
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"To create something of lasting value, one must be willing to endure temporary discomfort."
Edward Harriman