Creativity Quotes

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

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"Sympoiesis is a simple word; it means 'making-with'."
Haraway, Donna
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"The world is full of string figures we can learn from."
Haraway, Donna
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"The world is not made; it is made with, and we are implicated in that making."
Haraway, Donna
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"Performance allows us to become something we are not yet."
Muñoz, José Esteban
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"Creativity is not a luxury; it is a necessity for survival."
Muñoz, José Esteban
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"Performance is the repetition with a difference."
Muñoz, José Esteban
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"Creativity is how we stay alive in a world that seeks to kill us."
Muñoz, José Esteban
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"Affirmative desire is about creating new ways of being together."
Braidotti, Rosi
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"The body is not a burden but a source of knowledge and creativity."
Braidotti, Rosi
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"The body is a site of knowledge production and creative potential."
Braidotti, Rosi
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"Creativity takes courage"
Law, John
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"The chief enemy of creativity is good sense"
Law, John
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"Creativity is intelligence having fun"
Law, John
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"Difference is not deficit; it is richness."
Mol, Annemarie
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"Creativity emerges from constraint and limitation, not from freedom alone."
Mol, Annemarie
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"Creativity is the courage to be different."
Mol, Annemarie
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"We need new vocabularies and new ways of thinking to address contemporary challenges."
Barad, Karen
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"We must develop new ethical and political vocabularies for the world we are creating."
Barad, Karen
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"Sympoiesis describes worlds that make themselves together."
Haraway, Donna
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"Speculative imagination is a form of scientific practice."
Haraway, Donna
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"Imagination is a discipline, not an escape."
Haraway, Donna
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"We are responsible for our metaphors and our stories."
Haraway, Donna
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"Creativity emerges when we allow ourselves to fail in new ways."
Ahmed, Sara
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"Creativity thrives in limitation, not in endless possibility."
Ahmed, Sara
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"We perform ourselves into existence through repetition and invention."
Muñoz, José Esteban
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"Creativity is an act of refusal against normative forces."
Muñoz, José Esteban
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"Creativity emerges from the friction between desire and constraint."
Muñoz, José Esteban
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"Creativity is an act of love directed toward the world."
Muñoz, José Esteban
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"Creativity emerges from the intersection of difference and relationality."
Braidotti, Rosi
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"Creating new meanings is a way of resisting oppressive interpretations."
Braidotti, Rosi