Creativity Quotes

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

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"Passion is the root of all creation and all destruction."
Emily Brontë
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"The creative spirit cannot be bound by convention or expectation."
Emily Brontë
"The secret of masterpieces is to look at the world like a child."
Gustave Flaubert
"The desire to write grows with writing."
Gustave Flaubert
"Originality is nothing but judicious imitation."
Gustave Flaubert
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"The most authentic expression of self comes through creative work."
George Eliot
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"To create is to participate in the divine act of making."
George Eliot
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"Creativity flourishes when we surrender our fear of judgment"
Charles Dickens
"I am passionate, and I like people who have passion."
Émile Zola
"The greatest works are often born from the deepest suffering."
Émile Zola
"To create is to assert one's humanity."
Émile Zola
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"The merit of a work depends on its originality and the thought it contains."
Alexandre Dumas
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"Creativity is intelligence having fun."
Alexandre Dumas
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"Passion is the nurse of genius."
Alexandre Dumas
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"Genius without talent is like a beautiful thought without expression."
Honoré de Balzac
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"Talent is the capacity to develop a faculty you possess."
Honoré de Balzac
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"Originality is the one thing unoriginal people cannot forgive."
Charlotte Brontë
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"When a man undertakes to create something, he is filled with enthusiasm for his work."
Victor Hugo
"I love my work with a love that is frantic and perverted, as one loves his mistress."
Gustave Flaubert
"I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better."
Gustave Flaubert
"One does not create as one wills, but as one can."
Gustave Flaubert
"To create is to live twice over, in both the making and the appreciation."
Émile Zola
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"Creativity is intelligence having fun."
Alexandre Dumas
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"Creativity flourishes in minds unafraid to fail."
Alexandre Dumas
"The mind is capable of anything because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future."
Mary Shelley
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"Creativity demands brave expression."
Charlotte Brontë
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"Creativity is the soul's rebellion."
Charlotte Brontë
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"The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists."
Charles Dickens
"To create is to participate in the divine work of bringing order from chaos."
Émile Zola
"Creativity flourishes when one abandons the fear of judgment."
Émile Zola