Creativity Quotes
Where does inspiration come from? These quotes explore the mysterious process of making something new.
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"It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one."Honoré de Balzac
"The creative power lies dormant in every human being."Honoré de Balzac
"There is within every human heart a spark of heavenly fire."Victor Hugo
"Talent is a long patience, and genius is nothing more than great patience applied to art."Gustave Flaubert
"Creativity flourishes where constraints exist."Gustave Flaubert
"Creativity is intelligence having fun and expressing the soul."Alexandre Dumas
"The greatest invention is not a thing but an idea that changes everything."Alexandre Dumas
"Creativity flourishes when convention is questioned and boundaries are crossed."Alexandre Dumas
"In every human heart there exists something which is powerful and secret."Mary Shelley
"Creativity flourishes in the soil of freedom."Mary Shelley
"The creative act is an assertion of faith in the future."Émile Zola
"The creative person must surrender to forces beyond ego."Émile Zola
"Every creative act defies entropy."Émile Zola
"To be a poet is to be a channel"John Keats
"That which is creative must create itself"John Keats
"Sweet Fancy come"John Keats
"Master Humphrey's Clock was the great inspiration of my life."Charles Dickens
"Genius is persistent desire and effort."Honoré de Balzac
"Emotion recollected in tranquility is poetry."William Wordsworth
"Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart."William Wordsworth
"Creativity is the highest expression of the human spirit."William Wordsworth
"The eye of genius looks out of the world, not at it."Victor Hugo
"Creativity takes courage."Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Creativity is intelligence having fun."Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"The task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought."Mary Shelley
"To create is to play God, and such hubris demands a price."Mary Shelley
"Creativity is divine dissatisfaction with what already exists."Alexandre Dumas
"Creativity requires the courage to be vulnerable."Alexandre Dumas
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."Gustave Flaubert
"I must drink a thousand cups of coffee before I write a single page."Gustave Flaubert