Creativity Quotes

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

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"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."
Prince Metternich
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"Ideas are the offspring of intellect and experience."
Prince Metternich
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"Every innovation begins with a single act of imagination."
Prince Metternich
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"The future is written by those bold enough to imagine it."
Prince Metternich
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"The person who makes no mistakes does not try new things."
Edmund Burke
"The creative spirit knows no bounds."
Wilhelm II
"Creativity knows no limits."
Wilhelm II
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"I believe that without stirring of the heart there is no genius."
Benjamin Disraeli
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"The union of the mathematicians and poets is the marriage of reason and imagination."
Benjamin Disraeli
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"Creativity is the spark that ignites progress and innovation."
Queen Victoria
"All good things which exist are the fruits of originality."
John Stuart Mill
"Creativity flourishes when tradition and innovation dance together."
Wilhelm II
"Creativity thrives in minds that are both disciplined and free."
Wilhelm II
"Originality is not prized when it disturbs comfortable conventions."
John Stuart Mill
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"The person who makes no mistakes does not try new things."
Edmund Burke
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"The true and only character, the brand of genius, is originality."
Edmund Burke
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"Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm."
Benjamin Disraeli
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"Genius is passion, or not at all."
Benjamin Disraeli
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"I find writing a great comfort to my mind."
Queen Victoria
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"I have always endeavored to conceal my efforts and to write as if the matter came easily to me"
Otto von Bismarck
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"The creative force of the human mind is our greatest natural resource."
William Gladstone
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"Creation is the highest calling of the human spirit."
William Gladstone
"The truly creative mind sees possibility where others see only obstacles."
Wilhelm II
"To create is to participate in the divine."
Wilhelm II
"Creativity is the expression of the soul."
Marie Antoinette
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"I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better."
Napoleon Bonaparte
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"Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains."
Napoleon Bonaparte
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"Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm."
Benjamin Disraeli
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"Talent is a miner that must work in the dark and in the dust."
Benjamin Disraeli
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"The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age."
Benjamin Disraeli