Creativity Quotes

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

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"Creativity is the rebellion of the soul."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"Creativity is intelligence having fun."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"Creativity flourishes in the free mind."
Don Quixote
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"Creativity takes courage."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"The creative mind is divine in origin"
Don Quixote
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"I am still awed by the creative spirit."
Nick Carraway
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"I am still awed by the creative spirit."
Nick Carraway
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"Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures."
Nick Carraway
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"The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself."
Nick Carraway
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"Her imagination was her prison and her paradise"
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"The creative force within us yearns for expression regardless of external circumstances."
Natasha Rostova
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"One must be a creator to understand creation."
Pierre Bezukhov
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"Whatever starts in a man's imagination, must end in a man's hands."
Atticus Finch
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"I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best."
John the Savage
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"A bottle of mine own vintage."
John the Savage
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"Talent is a long patience."
Natasha Rostova
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"Creativity thrives in chaos and dies in order."
Yossarian
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"I really do think I'm quite talented in some ways."
Holden Caulfield
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"I've thought of an absolutely stunning book"
Billy Pilgrim
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"Maybe that's the greatest creative power of all things—not to make something from nothing, but to use the nothing itself."
Samuel Hamilton
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"The most important thing I have learned is that creative people are happiest."
Billy Pilgrim
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"The creative mind perceives what others miss."
Van Helsing
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"We've got to make things up as we go along."
Ralph
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"Paint and dressing up is just play."
Jack Merridew
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"His specs - use them as burning glasses"
Jack Merridew
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"I have always wanted to write."
Jo March
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"I don't think I'm a poet, but I know I love writing stories."
Jo March
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"Talent isn't genius, and you can't make yourself a genius."
Jo March
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"My book is a delightful story."
Jo March
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"That's what I do, I write my wrongs."
Amir