Creativity Quotes

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

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"Creativity is intelligence having fun."
Nikolai Gogol
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"The skill of making art is knowing what to leave out."
Maxim Gorky
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"To create is to rebel against the very structure of existence."
Anna Akhmatova
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"Every poem is an act of defiance against oblivion."
Anna Akhmatova
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"To write is to bleed onto the page and call it beauty."
Anna Akhmatova
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"Our creative abilities are the image of the Creator within us."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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"The great thing about humanity is that it writes poetry and music, it composes and invents. To do this, we need solitude."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"Creativity knows no boundaries."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"Creativity is the mark of genius."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"The difference between the poet and the madman is that the poet has control of his fantasy."
Vladimir Nabokov
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"The artist should be like an iceberg—most of his work should be below the surface."
Vladimir Nabokov
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"Genius is the ability to transform ordinary experience into spiritual insight."
Vladimir Nabokov
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"The gift of the artist is to see what others miss."
Vladimir Nabokov
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"Memory is the artist's greatest tool."
Vladimir Nabokov
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"Inspiration is needed in geometry just as in poetry."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"I am but a humble servant of the muse."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"Creativity is the essence of life."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"The artist must see beyond the veil of appearances."
Nikolai Gogol
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"The urge to create is not a frill for humans, but a deep necessity."
Boris Pasternak
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"Creativity flows from constraints, not from freedom."
Boris Pasternak
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"When you give birth to your creations, you must be prepared to let them go."
Maxim Gorky
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"The work of creation is never finished."
Maxim Gorky
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"A writer must be born with a gift for writing, just as a musician must be born with an ear for music."
Ivan Turgenev
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"Creativity is intelligence having fun."
Ivan Turgenev
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"Inspiration is needed in poetry, as in geometry."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"The poet must be bold, not the poem."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"In every heart, there is a poet struggling to be heard."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"The task of the artist is only to understand and reproduce faithfully."
Anton Chekhov
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"Inspiration is the lie we tell ourselves about where our work comes from."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"Creativity thrives in constraints as much as in freedom."
Mikhail Lermontov