Creativity Quotes

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

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"When you make music or write or create anything, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with the world."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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"Every action we take is a form of creation."
Marcel Proust
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"Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common."
Marcel Proust
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"Every reader is, while he is reading, the writer of the book."
Marcel Proust
"The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes."
André Gide
"Art is not something that can be created but something that can be discovered."
André Gide
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"Solitude is the soil in which genius is cultivated."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The purpose of art is to give life a shape."
Romain Rolland
"Genius is the capacity to see what is essential."
Romain Rolland
"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction."
Romain Rolland
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"To create is to give life meaning."
François Mauriac
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"Every act of creation is an act of rebellion against death."
François Mauriac
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"To become immortal, one must create things that will outlive oneself."
Anatole France
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"To create is to destroy; to destroy is sometimes to create."
Anatole France
"Style is when they're running you out of town and you make it look like you're leading the parade."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Creativity is intelligence having fun when no one is watching."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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"The idea that a writer should be free from passion is absurd; passion is his fuel."
Henry James
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"To create is to reveal one's soul to the world."
Henry James
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"The greatest discoveries come from looking at what everyone has seen and thinking what no one has thought."
Marcel Proust
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"Creativity is the bridge between imagination and reality."
Marcel Proust
"Art must take reality by surprise."
André Gide
"One must still have chaos within oneself to give birth to a dancing star."
André Gide
"The supreme art is to teach people to believe in themselves."
Romain Rolland
"Creativity is the highest form of intelligence; it is the mind's greatest gift."
Romain Rolland
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"I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best."
Simone de Beauvoir
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"No one can create alone."
Simone de Beauvoir
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"One must still have chaos within oneself to give birth to a dancing star."
Simone de Beauvoir
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"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction."
Anatole France
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"Inspiration is the act of drawing the chair and the desk nearer to one another."
Anatole France
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"The hand that follows intellect can achieve."
Montesquieu