Creativity Quotes

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

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"We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out."
Amy Lowell
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"Creativity flourishes when the mind is free."
Amy Lowell
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"Creativity is the birthright of all."
Amy Lowell
"The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real."
Wallace Stevens
"The imagination cannot be less than the life from which it springs."
Wallace Stevens
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"I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better."
Hilda Doolittle
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"Creativity is not a luxury; it is a necessity for survival."
Hilda Doolittle
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"Our innermost thoughts deserve to be written and honored."
Hilda Doolittle
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"To create is to participate in the renewal of the world."
Hilda Doolittle
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"Creativity is the expression of the soul."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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"Creativity is the spark of human potential."
Mary Wilkins Freeman
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"Creativity flourishes in freedom."
Mary Wilkins Freeman
"Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination."
Fannie Hurst
"The future is not something we enter; it is something we create."
Fannie Hurst
"To create is to participate in the divine."
Fannie Hurst
"There is a quality of legend about freaks."
Marianne Moore
"To create is to participate in the ongoing work of the universe."
Marianne Moore
"The creative act is an act of defiance against entropy."
Marianne Moore
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"I will put Chaos into fourteen lines and keep him there."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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"We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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"Creativity is just connecting things together; it is for everyone."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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"Creativity flourishes when people are free from unnecessary constraints."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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"Technique alone is never enough. You must have something to say, and say it as honestly as you can."
Amy Lowell
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"To be creative is to be alive in the fullest sense."
Amy Lowell
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"Creativity is the act of making connections others have not yet seen."
Amy Lowell
"Creativity is the rebellion against conformity."
Fannie Hurst
"The world about us would be desolate except for the world within us."
Wallace Stevens
"Imagination is the only genius."
Wallace Stevens
"The artist is the lover of the world."
Wallace Stevens
"The artist gives the world new eyes."
Wallace Stevens