Creativity Quotes
Where does inspiration come from? These quotes explore the mysterious process of making something new.
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"Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties."Stendhal
"To create is to live eternally."Frances Burney
"The greatest talents often lurk in obscurity."Henry Fielding
"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."Jonathan Swift
"A jest without pith is like a body without a soul."Laurence Sterne
"To live is to create; to create is to give life meaning."Laurence Sterne
"Creativity flourishes when the mind is freed from the chains of convention."Ann Radcliffe
"A man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it."Samuel Johnson
"No man was ever great by imitation."Samuel Johnson
"Creativity flourishes when the mind is free from oppressive constraints."Henry Fielding
"The creative spirit cannot be suppressed by those who seek to control it."Henry Fielding
"It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against any author, but to produce something better is a very laborious undertaking."Daniel Defoe
"The poor are not poor because they lack resources but because they lack imagination."Daniel Defoe
"Creativity is the breath of human existence."Eliza Haywood
"Create as if your life depends on it."Eliza Haywood
"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."Jonathan Swift
"In all of us there is a touch of the divine madness."Jonathan Swift
"Creativity is the essence of humanity."Aphra Behn
"Creativity blooms in freedom."Aphra Behn
"My greatest joy is creation."Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"The mind is the most beautiful creation."Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"A woman's wit is her greatest weapon in a world that denies her others."Eliza Haywood
"Creativity flourishes in those brave enough to contradict the received wisdom of their time."Eliza Haywood
"The greatest adversity to a writer is a quiet life."Samuel Johnson
"The mind in creation is as a fading coal."Percy Bysshe Shelley
"Creativity is the rebellion of the constrained soul."Aphra Behn
"A poet a painter a musician an architect: the man or woman who is not one of these is not an Christian."William Blake
"One Power alone makes a Poet: Imagination the Divine Vision."William Blake
"A lady's imagination is very rapid."Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"To create is to assert one's will against the void."Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley