Creativity Quotes

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

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"One's own judgment of one's powers of creativity is one of the most important judgments one makes."
Antonio Gramsci
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"To create a new culture does not mean only to make individual discoveries."
Antonio Gramsci
"Creativity flourishes when people are freed from want."
Friedrich Engels
"Creativity flourishes in free societies."
Friedrich Engels
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"The urge for destruction is also a creative urge."
Michel Bakunin
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"The passion for destruction is a creative passion."
Michel Bakunin
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"The creative impulse in humans can never be fully suppressed."
Michel Bakunin
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"Every person has the potential to be a creator, not merely a consumer."
Emma Goldman
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"Creativity flourishes when people are free from the burden of survival."
Peter Kropotkin
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"Creativity blooms in communities founded on mutual respect and equality."
Peter Kropotkin
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"The challenge is not to revolutionize existing institutions, but to create new forms of life entirely."
Antonio Gramsci
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"Every act is an act of creation that presupposes knowledge."
Antonio Gramsci
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"The revolutionary imagination must be constantly renewed through contact with reality."
Antonio Gramsci
"Creativity flourishes when people are freed from the burdens of want."
Friedrich Engels
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"The passion for destruction is also a creative passion."
Michel Bakunin
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"Creativity flourishes when the mind is free."
Michel Bakunin
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"The most vital thing in life is the power to create"
Emma Goldman
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"Genius is not born, but created through struggle and passion"
Emma Goldman
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"The work of creation is never finished; each generation must begin anew"
Emma Goldman
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"Innovation is born from the marriage of necessity and imagination."
Simón Bolívar
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"There is no culture without critique, and no critique without culture."
Michel Foucault
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"To think is to break with the givens of experience."
Michel Foucault
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"Every act of naming is an act of power; to name is to create."
Michel Foucault
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"Creativity flourishes when people are freed from economic desperation."
Peter Kropotkin
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"Creativity requires not inspiration, but the freedom from desperation."
Peter Kropotkin
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"Ideas are not born; they are created by the conditions of existence."
Karl Marx
"Creativity flourishes when freed from economic necessity."
Friedrich Engels
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"The passion for destruction is also a creative passion."
Michel Bakunin
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"Creativity flourishes when chains of oppression are broken."
Michel Bakunin
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"Cultural movements cannot be artificially created; they must arise organically from the people."
Antonio Gramsci