Creativity Quotes

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

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"The unconscious is not repressed; it is productive."
Félix Guattari
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"Singularities create worlds."
Félix Guattari
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"Anti-production is always a mode of production."
Félix Guattari
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"The excluded are the true creators."
Félix Guattari
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"The world is not a given; it is something we create through our actions."
Max Horkheimer
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"The work is complete only in its incompleteness."
Giorgio Agamben
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"Creativity emerges in the gap between intention and accident."
Giorgio Agamben
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"Writing disrupts the illusion of self-presence."
Jacques Derrida
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"Creativity emerges at the margins where systems break down."
Jacques Derrida
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"Writing is what remains when the writer has vanished."
Jacques Derrida
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"Writing opens a space where the author's intentions disappear."
Jacques Derrida
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"The more you succeed in losing yourself in something meaningful, the more you truly become yourself."
Gilles Deleuze
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"To think is to experiment; thought is a war machine against established categories."
Gilles Deleuze
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"To create is to fill the cosmos with new beings; creation is the highest affirmation of life."
Gilles Deleuze
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"The symptom is not a sign of disease but a sign of creative resistance to the normal."
Gilles Deleuze
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"To create is to risk failure; the blank page is not a void but a field of infinite possibility."
Gilles Deleuze
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"Every act of creation is an act of destruction of what was thought to be established."
Giorgio Agamben
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"Speech and action are the modes in which humans appear to each other."
Hannah Arendt
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"The space of appearance is constituted by action and speech."
Hannah Arendt
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"The capacity for innovation and beginning anew is distinctly human."
Hannah Arendt
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"We create ourselves through our actions."
Hannah Arendt
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"We must create new possibilities for life, not simply analyze the old ones."
Félix Guattari
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"Creativity emerges at the intersection of different planes of organization."
Félix Guattari
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"The unconscious mind is not a dark force to be controlled but a source of creativity."
Félix Guattari
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"We must learn to think at the edge of chaos, where creativity is born."
Félix Guattari
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"We create ourselves and our worlds through continuous experimentation."
Félix Guattari
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"We must create spaces where new subjectivities can emerge."
Félix Guattari
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"The margin is where meaning multiplies."
Jacques Derrida
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"Art that challenges nothing has already been neutralized by the system."
Max Horkheimer
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"Writing is a question of becoming, always incomplete, always in the midst of being formed."
Gilles Deleuze