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All too often, when creative people pick out someone else's creative work as an inspiration, what they end up with is very, very far from the original.

— Samuel R. Delany

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✓Similar Perspectives

Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist.

— Lukas Foss

If you're a creative person, what inspires you is always changing; it's always shifting.

— Tinashe

Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.

— Donatella Versace

I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy.

— Taylor Swift

When I look at designer books I am sometimes puzzled why they don't share their inspiration, when it's obvious somebody had such great inspiration.

— Anna Sui

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

— Carl Rogers

What drives me is to still feel creative and like I'm pushing myself as an artist.

— JC Chasez

In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

I don't believe in the model of pure inspiration. All of my creative work stems from a dialogue with others.

— Rachel Kushner

Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly different in order to get inspiration.

— Tori Amos

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