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