Creativity Quotes

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

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"Poetry is a struggle against suffocation and the silence of the void"
Federico García Lorca
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"To create is to admit that the world is not yet finished"
Federico García Lorca
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"The creative act is the most intimate conversation between self and mystery"
Federico García Lorca
"To create is to rebel against the order of things."
Leopoldo Lugones
"Creativity blooms in the soil of contradiction."
Leopoldo Lugones
"Originality is often just saying what others think but are afraid to express."
Julio Cortázar
"To write is to commit an act of resistance against forgetting."
Julio Cortázar
"To create is to admit the world is incomplete and that you might help complete it."
Julio Cortázar
"Creativity blooms in the space between constraint and freedom."
Julio Cortázar
"To create is to rebel against the ordinary."
Luis Cernuda
"To create is to accept the possibility of failure."
Luis Cernuda
"Every artist is a thief of truth."
Luis Cernuda
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"Blindness has allowed me to concentrate on the music and philosophy of language itself."
Jorge Luis Borges
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"The Argentine writer does not invent; he discovers."
Jorge Luis Borges
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"To be a poet is to be able to say the same thing in many different ways."
Jorge Luis Borges
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"To write is to correct the world, to improve it, to make it eternal."
Jorge Luis Borges
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"I believe that every act of creation is an act of rebellion against mortality."
Jorge Luis Borges
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"Writing is the art of discovering what you think about something."
Jorge Luis Borges
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"The act of writing transforms both the writer and the reader."
Jorge Luis Borges
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"The great poets are characterized by the universal quality of their imagination."
Antonio Machado
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"The soul grows by what it takes in; the mind grows by what it gives out."
Antonio Machado
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"To create is to participate in the divine act of bringing forth life."
Antonio Machado
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"We are all artists; the question is whether we create beauty or merely exist."
Juan Ramón Jiménez
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"To create is to rebel against the limitations of what is expected."
Juan Ramón Jiménez
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"Memory is the artist's greatest tool and cruelest burden."
Rafael Alberti
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"The colors we choose define the legacy we leave."
Rafael Alberti
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"To create is to participate in the divine."
Rafael Alberti
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"Creativity is the rebellion of the human spirit."
Rafael Alberti
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"Creativity is the highest form of intelligence."
Miguel de Unamuno
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"I want to make my madness my medicine."
Federico García Lorca