Creativity Quotes

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

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"The culture of the masses develops through artistic innovation and bold experiment."
Leon Trotsky
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"Creativity serves revolution"
Joseph Stalin
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"Creativity flourishes when the mind is freed from the chains of oppression."
Vladimir Lenin
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"We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us."
Winston Churchill
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"Remember always that the composer, the poet, the sculptor, the painter, the radio artist, the experimenter in science and invention, the teacher, the religious leader - all of these are engaged in the act of creation."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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"Creativity flourishes only where independent thought is permitted."
Leon Trotsky
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"Creativity flourishes only where the chains of oppression are broken."
Vladimir Lenin
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"Creativity flows from necessity."
Joseph Stalin
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"Creativity serves the collective good."
Joseph Stalin
"A person is but the product of their thoughts; what they think, they become."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly responding to your thoughts."
Mahatma Gandhi
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"The artist who compromises his vision has already lost."
Benito Mussolini
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"Be brave enough to live creatively."
Nelson Mandela
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"Education should aim at destroying the desire to imitate and awaken the desire to create."
Eleanor Roosevelt
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"Genius is of no country."
Winston Churchill
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"Creativity is intelligence having fun"
Jorge Edwards
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"Creativity takes courage"
Jorge Edwards
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"The chief enemy of creativity is good sense"
Jorge Edwards
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"Creativity emerges from the tension between what is and what could be."
Jorge Edwards
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"Creativity requires risk. It requires you to be brave enough to try."
Nelson Mandela
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"Every person has the spark of genius within them."
Nelson Mandela
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"Remember always that the composer, the poet, the scientist, only works out in the mind what others have already decided is best."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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"Every act of creation is an act of rebellion against the ordinary."
Jorge Edwards
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"Creativity flourishes not in comfort, but in the friction of ideas."
Jorge Edwards
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"To be an artist is to fail as others succeed."
Kathy Acker
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"I write because I'm desperate."
Kathy Acker
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"I write myself into being."
Kathy Acker
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"I create therefore I am."
Kathy Acker
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"I write to make myself real."
Kathy Acker
"Creativity is the divine spark in humanity"
Miguel Ángel Asturias