Creativity Quotes
Where does inspiration come from? These quotes explore the mysterious process of making something new.
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"I sing because the heart must ever strain toward music."Emily Dickinson
"When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with ideas."Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Creativity flows from authenticity."Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Create boldly."Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"The true principle of life is creation."Henry James
"I write as I walk because I have to keep moving."Henry James
"Creativity is the expression of the soul."François Mauriac
"A writer is a person who has taught their mind to misbehave."Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Innovation begins when we question what we have always accepted."Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Creativity flourishes in an environment of freedom and trust."Nathaniel Hawthorne
"I write precisely as I please."Herman Melville
"The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes."Anatole France
"The poet is a little bit ahead of his time always."Anatole France
"Creativity is the act of making sense out of senselessness."Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Creativity emerges from the spaces between what we know and what we fear."François Mauriac
"Creativity flourishes when we give ourselves permission to fail."François Mauriac
"I taste a Liquor never brewed in any Tavern."Emily Dickinson
"Me from myself to banish, had I Art."Emily Dickinson
"The effort really to see and represent is no idle business."Henry James
"The most obvious fact about art is that it aims to give form to formlessness."Henry James
"Writing is easy. You just sit down at the typewriter and bleed."Mark Twain
"Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very' and your writing will be just as it should be."Mark Twain
"All that we are is determined by what we think."Herman Melville
"Creativity thrives in suffering, not in comfort."Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Creativity is the essence of being alive."Romain Rolland
"Creativity cannot be forced."Romain Rolland
"Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse."Anatole France
"To write is to confess one's deepest secrets to strangers."François Mauriac
"The very essence of pleasure is discovery"Henry James
"Creativity is the rearrangement of existing elements into new combinations"Henry James