Creativity Quotes

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

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"The gift economy sustains spirit"
Shevek
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"I have devised seven separate explanations, each of which would cover the facts as far as we know them."
Sherlock Holmes
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"An idea cannot be owned or hoarded"
Shevek
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"Memory is both a gift and a curse."
Charlie Gordon
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"My mind rebels at stagnation. I abhor a dull routine."
Sherlock Holmes
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"Creativity flows from the freedom to imagine"
Takver
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"What one man can invent another can discover."
Sherlock Holmes
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"Everything you seek is already within you."
Chiang
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"Creative work is a way to find meaning in life."
Viktor Frankl
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"My drawing has never been a success"
The Narrator (Pilot)
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"Among you are some who are born to be shapes and molders of matter."
The Prophet (Almustafa)
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"And what is it to work with love? It is to charge all things you fashion with a breath of your own spirit."
The Prophet (Almustafa)
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"The master's spirit is not in the work of his hands, but in his heart."
The Prophet (Almustafa)
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"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
The Narrator (Pilot)
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"Drawing pictures of boa constrictors from the outside and from the inside."
The Narrator (Pilot)
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"One must have chaos within oneself to give birth to a dancing star."
Zarathustra
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"The creation of new values—that even the lion cannot yet accomplish."
Zarathustra
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"I have learned that everyone has a unique gift to share with the world."
Santiago
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"One must have chaos within oneself to give birth to a dancing star."
Zarathustra
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"The creator must seek filth and decay, that he may find causes of life."
Zarathustra
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"A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper."
Henry David Thoreau
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"The mind is something too great to be shut up within one body."
Seneca
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"One must have chaos within oneself to give birth to a dancing star."
Zarathustra
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"I say unto you: one must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star."
Zarathustra
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"The creators are hard and merciless and egoistical, they are immoral."
Zarathustra
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"I write the way I talk"
Charlotte A. Cavatica
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"One must have chaos within oneself to give birth to a dancing star."
Zarathustra
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"I love him who wants to create over and beyond himself, and thus perishes."
Zarathustra
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"One must have chaos within oneself to give birth to a dancing star."
Zarathustra
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"I teach you the test of life: create what you love."
Zarathustra