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."
Homer
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"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction."
Homer
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"Every age has its own poetry; every heart its own song"
Dante Alighieri
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"To create is to participate in the divine act of making"
Dante Alighieri
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"Creativity takes courage."
Pickering Edward
"A creative mind finds solutions where others see only walls."
Geoffrey Chaucer
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"The creative spirit knows no boundaries of time or space."
Ovid
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"The creative act is an act of defiance against entropy."
Ovid
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"Creativity is the rebellion against the ordinary."
Ovid
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"Each observation adds a brushstroke to the great portrait of the universe."
Henrietta Leavitt
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"Astronomical observation requires both creativity and strict adherence to fact."
Henrietta Leavitt
"Science requires both logic and imagination."
Annie Jump Cannon
"Science demands both precision and imagination."
Annie Jump Cannon
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"The power to create is the greatest power of all."
Virgil
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"The creative mind is never at rest."
Virgil
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"Every person is born a poet; society decides otherwise."
Virgil
"Creation is the highest form of expression."
Geoffrey Chaucer
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"The craftsman's hand mirrors the wisdom of his mind."
Homer
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"Creativity flows from the courage to be different."
Homer
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"To create is to participate in the divine."
Dante Alighieri
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"In the garden of the mind, each thought is a seed."
Dante Alighieri
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"Creativity is the act of bringing possibility into being."
Pickering Edward
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"Creativity flourishes when we permit ourselves to fail publicly."
Pickering Edward
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"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."
Ovid
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"We are only the custodians of our own creativity and capacity for growth."
Ovid
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"The creative spirit cannot be confined or controlled."
Virgil
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"Creativity is the expression of the soul's deepest longings."
Virgil
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"Measurement requires both precision and imagination."
Henrietta Leavitt
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"In variables, we find not chaos, but the universe's method of communication."
Henrietta Leavitt
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"The creative mind sees possibilities where others see only obstacles."
Homer