Creativity Quotes
Where does inspiration come from? These quotes explore the mysterious process of making something new.
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"To create is to participate in the divine act."Pierre Corneille
"The spark of genius lies dormant in every human heart."Pierre Corneille
"Creativity flourishes when constraints are removed."Jean Racine
"Creativity emerges from the depths of the soul."Jean Racine
"The world exists to be put into a book."Stéphane Mallarmé
"A page always believes itself beautiful."Stéphane Mallarmé
"The blank page is the author's greatest terror and greatest joy."Stéphane Mallarmé
"The poet must divest himself of all preconceived notions."Stéphane Mallarmé
"The poet must capture the fleeting and make it eternal."Stéphane Mallarmé
"The poem is not written, but discovered."Stéphane Mallarmé
"The ordinary becomes extraordinary through vision."Stéphane Mallarmé
"The work of art is never finished, only abandoned."Stéphane Mallarmé
"The heart of creation is emptiness."Stéphane Mallarmé
"The poet must think in images, not words."Stéphane Mallarmé
"To create is to risk failure; to avoid risk is to guarantee mediocrity."Molière
"The creative mind sees possibilities where others see only obstacles."Pierre Corneille
"Passion without direction becomes merely noise."Arthur Rimbaud
"Creation requires the courage to destroy."Arthur Rimbaud
"Creativity is the defiance of the possible."Arthur Rimbaud
"Creativity is intelligence having fun."Paul Verlaine
"Creativity is the bridge between being and becoming."Paul Verlaine
"Originality is nothing but judicious imitation."Voltaire
"The creative spirit knows no boundaries of class or birth"Pierre Corneille
"The muse speaks only to those who listen in silence."Jean Racine
"To create is to birth the divine within the mortal."Jean Racine
"I adore the beautiful disorder of the mind, the chaos that creates genius."Charles Baudelaire
"Genius is no more than childhood recovered at will."Charles Baudelaire
"The sublime is always born of the ordinary through the force of the imagination."Charles Baudelaire
"To create is to rebel against the tyranny of the ordinary."Charles Baudelaire
"To create is to renounce the world and embrace the void."Stéphane Mallarmé