Creativity Quotes

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

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"The greatest creativity flows from lived experience."
Fannie Hurst
U
"The creative spirit is the highest form of human expression."
Upton Sinclair
O
"Every person has a hidden talent waiting to be discovered."
O. Henry
J
"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."
Jack London
J
"Creativity is not found, it is forged in the fires of living."
Jack London
J
"To create is to be alive in the fullest sense."
Jack London
M
"Creativity thrives in constraints, not in unlimited possibility."
Mary Wilkins Freeman
M
"Creativity is the bridge between intention and reality."
Mary Wilkins Freeman
C
"We are not here to do what has already been done."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
C
"The creative impulse is as vital to human wellbeing as food and shelter."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
C
"The creative expression of women has been suppressed by economic dependence."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
B
"The greatest discovery of my time is the creative power of the human spirit."
Booth Tarkington
B
"Creativity is the expression of individual truth."
Booth Tarkington
U
"The creative act is inherently political—it either challenges or reinforces the existing order."
Upton Sinclair
M
"Creativity flourishes when we allow ourselves to be imperfect."
Mary Wilkins Freeman
"I want to write something sensuous."
Sherwood Anderson
"Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence."
Sherwood Anderson
"The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative."
Sherwood Anderson
"Creativity blooms when we allow ourselves to be vulnerable."
Sherwood Anderson
"Creativity is the antidote to conformity."
Sherwood Anderson
O
"Creativity is not about what you have; it's about what you imagine."
O. Henry
O
"Creativity blooms in the soil of curiosity."
O. Henry
K
"Art was her greatest passion, and she pursued it with the intensity of one who has just discovered life."
Kate Chopin
B
"Creativity flows from a childlike curiosity and wonder."
Booth Tarkington
U
"A creative mind cannot be confined by the chains of convention."
Upton Sinclair
J
"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."
Jack London
C
"We are not here to do what has already been done."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
C
"The creative force within us is the divine spark."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
O
"Creativity is intelligence having fun."
O. Henry
"You cannot make something beautiful by force or law."
Sherwood Anderson