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Quotes on creativity and making something new. This hand-picked collection brings together 30 of the finest creativity quotes ever written — from Friedrich Nietzsche, Lord Byron, William Wordsworth and other great voices. Tap Copy on any quote to save or share it.

You must have chaos in you to give birth to a dancing star.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A drop of ink may make a million think.

— Lord Byron

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

— William Wordsworth

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

— Oscar Wilde

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

— Mark Twain

A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform.

Solitude is creativity's best friend.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells.

— Dr. Seuss

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

Creativity takes courage.

You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

— Maya Angelou

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

— George Bernard Shaw

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. I say unto you: you still have chaos in yourselves.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

— John Lennon

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

— Steve Jobs

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

— Alexander Pope

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

— George Bernard Shaw

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

— Oscar Wilde

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

— Steve Jobs

Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

— Albert Einstein

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

— Albert Einstein

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

— Albert Einstein

Every artist was first an amateur.

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about.

— Rumi

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

— Thomas Edison

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

— Maya Angelou

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