Creativity Quotes

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

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"The creative mind is restless and perpetually seeking."
Ann Radcliffe
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"Creativity is the highest form of intelligence."
Ann Radcliffe
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"Creativity is the spark of genius."
Henry Fielding
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"Creativity flows from passion."
Henry Fielding
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"Creativity emerges from struggle, not from comfort."
George Sand
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"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction."
George Sand
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"To find one's way out of despair by means of some form of creative activity... this is the solution."
Frances Burney
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"I can never write to order or at command."
Frances Burney
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"Creativity is intelligence having fun."
Frances Burney
"Creativity is the ability to see connections others miss."
Daniel Defoe
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"Creativity takes courage."
Laurence Sterne
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"Creativity is intelligence having fun."
Laurence Sterne
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"To create is to understand the world more deeply."
Ann Radcliffe
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"Every great work of art begins with a single vision."
Ann Radcliffe
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"Creativity flourishes in the spaces between rules."
Ann Radcliffe
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"One needs to be slightly underemployed if one is to do something significant."
Stendhal
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"The minute we cease to believe in the infinite, we lose all capacity to create."
Stendhal
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"Talent is the capacity for seeing more deeply and comprehensively than ordinary people."
Stendhal
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"Every writer must be allowed to write about the subjects that torment him."
George Sand
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"It is easy to write with enthusiasm when you have a fair subject."
Frances Burney
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"To create is to be divine."
Frances Burney
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"Necessity is the constant incentive to invention."
Henry Fielding
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"Creativity flourishes in the soil of curiosity."
Henry Fielding
"Creativity is the residue of time well spent."
Daniel Defoe
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"A woman of genius is a being apart, not to be judged by ordinary standards."
Mary Wollstonecraft
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"The greatest works of mankind are born not of calculation but of passion."
Laurence Sterne
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"To criticize is easy; to create is the measure of a man."
Laurence Sterne
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"Every act of creation is an act of rebellion against the mundane."
Laurence Sterne
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"Creativity is the soul's rebellion against mediocrity."
Ann Radcliffe
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"Creativity flourishes in the space between thought and action."
Ann Radcliffe