Creativity Quotes

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

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"Innovation emerges not from individual genius but from network reconfiguration"
Latour, Bruno
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"Art creates new possibilities."
Wittig, Monique
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"We must create a new symbolic order."
Wittig, Monique
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"We must invent new ways of being."
Wittig, Monique
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"Art represents the possible."
Wittig, Monique
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"We must create new meanings."
Wittig, Monique
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"Innovation happens at the intersection of heterogeneous elements"
Callon, Michel
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"Innovation requires the ability to hold contradictions together"
Callon, Michel
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"The margin is where new possibilities emerge"
Callon, Michel
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"Every translation is a betrayal and a creation simultaneously"
Callon, Michel
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"Innovation is the art of making the impossible seem inevitable"
Callon, Michel
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"The world is not waiting to be discovered but waiting to be created"
Callon, Michel
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"Resonance cannot be purchased; it can only be cultivated through presence."
Hartmut, Rosa
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"The creative act requires the luxury of purposelessness."
Hartmut, Rosa
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"The eye of the beholder is also the eye of the builder."
Rich, Adrienne
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"Writing is an act of faith in the readers."
Rich, Adrienne
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"Thinking is an erotic act."
Rich, Adrienne
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"Creativity is an essential dimension of our humanity."
Davis, Angela
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"To write is to resist the categories imposed upon us."
Wittig, Monique
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"Writing oneself into existence is an act of rebellion."
Wittig, Monique
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"To write is to claim a space that has been denied."
Wittig, Monique
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"Writing is an act of self-creation and world-creation."
Wittig, Monique
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"Writing is a form of thinking that the world does not yet know how to silence."
Wittig, Monique
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"To narrate is to claim authority over one's own existence."
Wittig, Monique
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"To write is to insist on one's right to exist."
Wittig, Monique
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"Innovation is a process of making new connections between previously separate elements."
Callon, Michel
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"To innovate is to translate interests in new ways that create new possibilities."
Callon, Michel
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"Innovation requires the translation of interests across different social worlds."
Callon, Michel
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"Innovation is the result of successful translation of interests across different domains."
Callon, Michel
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"Every translation inevitably produces something new; fidelity is impossible and undesirable."
Latour, Bruno