Creativity Quotes

"A genius is one who takes the obvious and makes it beautiful."

"The passion to create is stronger than the passion to know"

"To create is to rebel against one's own nature"

"There is no greater egotist than the unsuccessful artist."

"The poet is a light and winged and holy thing."

"Talent is a continuum. Genius is singular."

"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration applied with passion."

"To create is to resist the tyranny of what already exists."

"Creativity flows from the intersection of passion and discipline."

"Curiosity is the raw material of progress."

"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction."

"One must still have chaos within oneself to give birth to a dancing star."

"Creativity is the last remaining freedom we have in a world of constraints."

"To spend one's life creating is not without merit, even if creation amounts to nothing."

"There is no genius without a mixture of madness."

"Genius is not a gift, but a way of relating to the world."

"Genius is not a gift, but a way of relating to the world."

"I am my own muse, I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better."

"In writing, there is no final destination, only the act of becoming."

"The act of creation itself is a refusal of fate."

"The work of writing is the work of self-creation."

"To create is to assert one's freedom against the constraints of circumstance."

"The artist must create beauty the way a plant produces flowers."

"The artist must be like a shark, always moving or suffocating."

"Our passions shape our books; repose writes them for us."

"The beautiful things we write should come from the places we have suffered."

"Creativity flourishes in solitude and suffering."

"The artist forges the uncreated conscience of his race."

"All that remains is creation."

"What is significant is the will to create meaning."