Creativity Quotes

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

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"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."
Oscar Wilde
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"The man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery."
James Joyce
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"He felt that there was something within him which he could not express."
James Joyce
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"Creativity is the expression of the divine within us."
Anne Brontë
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"Creativity emerges from the friction between our desires and our circumstances."
Thomas Hardy
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"To create is to risk failure, but not to create is to guarantee it."
Thomas Hardy
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"We are not merely passive recipients of tradition but creative beings shaped by our choices."
George Eliot
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"Genius is not always received as genius because it is not always announced by the eccentricity conventionally expected to accompany it."
George Eliot
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"If your heart were a theater, what would it perform?"
George Eliot
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"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."
William Butler Yeats
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"A poet is, before anything else, a craftsman who must learn his trade."
William Butler Yeats
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"The poet who is not himself a master of the tradition cannot add anything to it."
William Butler Yeats
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"Imagination is the beginning of creation."
George Bernard Shaw
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"Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative."
Oscar Wilde
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"I have written nearly all my best criticisms in bed, in my nightgown."
Oscar Wilde
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"I have ever been prone to take delight in the abnormal and the strange."
Anne Brontë
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"The imagination is humanity's greatest treasure."
Anne Brontë
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"Creativity is the breath of the soul."
Emily Brontë
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"To create is to breathe life into thought."
Emily Brontë
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"Creativity springs from discontent with what exists."
Thomas Hardy
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"Creativity requires the destruction of what existed before."
Thomas Hardy
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"Creativity is the divine gift given to all human beings."
George Eliot
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"Let the creative spirit never be suppressed or forgotten"
Charles Dickens
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"Creativity is the rebellion of the human spirit."
Anne Brontë
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"Creativity flourishes when fear is set aside."
Anne Brontë
"One must still have chaos within oneself to give birth to a dancing star."
Émile Zola
"To create is to live twice."
Émile Zola
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"Memory is an exquisite artist."
Charlotte Brontë
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"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
Charlotte Brontë
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"Imagination is the beginning of creation."
George Bernard Shaw