Creativity Quotes
Where does inspiration come from? These quotes explore the mysterious process of making something new.
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"The blank page is both an invitation and a curse."Stéphane Mallarmé
"All that exists desires to be transformed into art."Stéphane Mallarmé
"To live without creating is to merely exist."Stéphane Mallarmé
"To create is to assert meaning against the indifference of existence."Stéphane Mallarmé
"To create is to participate in the act of creation itself."Stéphane Mallarmé
"To create is to live twice over, once in reality and once in imagination."Paul Verlaine
"Creativity is intelligence having fun."Molière
"The creative spirit cannot be contained by convention."Molière
"The creative act is an act of rebellion against mediocrity."Molière
"I say that one must be a seer, make oneself a seer."Arthur Rimbaud
"Genius is the recovery of childhood at will."Arthur Rimbaud
"I invented the colors of the vowels."Arthur Rimbaud
"To create is to risk everything, but not to create is to risk nothing."Arthur Rimbaud
"To create beauty is to participate in the divine."Arthur Rimbaud
"Creativity is intelligence having fun."Gérard de Nerval
"Creativity is the expression of the soul."Victor Leconte de Lisle
"Every person has creative potential."Victor Leconte de Lisle
"Fashion is something that exists in clothes and in one's head"Théophile Gautier
"Style is the man himself"Théophile Gautier
"To create is divine"Théophile Gautier
"I am painting myself because I am my own subject"Théophile Gautier
"Creativity takes courage"Théophile Gautier
"Creativity is intelligence having fun."Guy de Maupassant
"Creativity is the ultimate act of defiance."Guy de Maupassant
"Creativity takes courage."Alexandre Dumas, fils
"Creativity is intelligence having fun."Alexandre Dumas, fils
"Perfume is the poetry of smell, and smell is the sense that jumps most readily to memory."Charles Baudelaire
"Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recovered at will."Charles Baudelaire
"In the face of uncertainty, creativity is our greatest ally."Charles Baudelaire
"Creativity flourishes in the fertile ground of aimlessness and wandering."Paul Verlaine