Creativity Quotes

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

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"My soul has grown deep like the rivers."
Zora Neale Hurston
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"Creativity is the highest form of intelligence."
Zora Neale Hurston
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"Creativity knows no boundaries."
Zora Neale Hurston
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"Creativity flourishes only when we are free to imagine."
Richard Wright
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"Every act of creation is an act of defiance."
Richard Wright
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"To create is to declare that we refuse to accept the world as given."
Richard Wright
"The act of writing is an act of self-creation and self-discovery."
Ralph Ellison
"Creativity flourishes when we permit ourselves to be vulnerable."
Ralph Ellison
"The challenge for the writer is to say in a way never said before."
Maya Angelou
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"Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall find themselves relieved of despair."
Alice Walker
"Narrating her life, she constructs her life."
Toni Morrison
"If there is a book that you want to read but hasn't been written yet, you must write it."
Toni Morrison
"Imagination creates possibilities; action creates reality."
Toni Morrison
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"Build your own world, or someone will build one for you and make you live in it."
Langston Hughes
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"I learned that creativity and imagination were not for the select few."
Langston Hughes
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"I believe in the power of stories to transform human consciousness."
Richard Wright
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"I write to clarify the confusion that exists within me."
Richard Wright
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"The act of creation is the ultimate freedom."
Richard Wright
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"The self is not something ready made, but something in continuous creation."
James Baldwin
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"The writer has to take the plunge."
James Baldwin
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"The act of creation is the most divine thing a human being can do."
Zora Neale Hurston
"To create is to resist the erasure of one's existence."
Ralph Ellison
"The creative act is an assertion of human dignity against the forces of reduction."
Ralph Ellison
"Creativity is the assertion that the world can be otherwise."
Ralph Ellison
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"Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen."
John Steinbeck
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"Creativity is the most important thing in life."
John Steinbeck
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"The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: a human creature born abnormally, inhumanely sensitive."
Pearl S. Buck
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"If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality."
Pearl S. Buck
"Creativity emerges from the tension between our inner vision and external reality."
Ralph Ellison
"If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it."
Toni Morrison