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