Creativity Quotes
Where does inspiration come from? These quotes explore the mysterious process of making something new.
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"Genius is a curse, and the curse is the price of greatness."Nietzsche, Friedrich
"My life is an art work; I think of myself as an artist."Kierkegaard, Søren
"Every idea has an author, either finite or infinite."Berkeley, George
"The greatest pleasure to me is discovery."Locke, John
"To act is human; to create is divine."Leibniz, Gottfried
"Creativity is the highest form of intelligence."Leibniz, Gottfried
"Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught."Kant, Immanuel
"The imagination cannot be taught, only developed."Kant, Immanuel
"The imagination is the source of all human creativity and innovation."Kant, Immanuel
"Creativity flows from understanding the nature of things."Spinoza, Baruch
"Creativity flows from the depths of understanding."Maimonides
"Creativity is the highest form of intelligence."Maimonides
"To a creative mind, every place, every person, and every circumstance has interest."Hume, David
"We only understand what we create ourselves."Descartes, René
"Necessity is the mother of invention and of strange expedients."Descartes, René
"We may say most aptly that the Analytic Art is the invention of the greatest minds."Descartes, René
"To create is to act in accordance with one's nature."Leibniz, Gottfried
"Ideas are the seeds from which all things grow."Leibniz, Gottfried
"The floating of my thoughts would be lost, like ships without pilots, if I did not write them down."Locke, John
"The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe."Locke, John
"The mind creates what the heart desires."Avicenna
"Creativity flourishes in the mind that is at peace."Avicenna
"Imagination without reason produces delusion; reason without imagination produces sterility."Maimonides
"The act of creation, whether in art or thought, mirrors the divine act."Maimonides
"We endeavor to bring into existence whatever we imagine to follow from our power of acting."Spinoza, Baruch
"Creativity emerges from the combination of distinct ideas."Leibniz, Gottfried
"Imagination is the gateway to innovation."Leibniz, Gottfried
"Creativity blooms in the garden of curiosity."Leibniz, Gottfried
"Genius is the ability to overcome the constraints of conventional thinking."Hume, David
"Ideas come from sensation and reflection."Locke, John