Quotes About Creativity

Real sign of intelligence isn't knoweldge, it's imagination

The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmounious proportions to produce a creative intelligence.

I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.

I paint my pictures with all the considerations which are natural to my intelligence, and according as my intelligence understands them.

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

The highest type of intelligence, says Aristotle, manifests itself in an ability to see connections where no one has seen them before, that is, to think analogically.

No writing is a waste of time – no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work. With every sentence you write, you have learned something. It has done you good.

By placing intelligence at the edges rather than control in the middle of the network, the Internet has created a platform for innovation.

Original thinking migrates each day in search of nourishment.

The school system only recognizes one type of intelligence. There are so many different types of intelligence.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Transcendental Meditation opens the awareness to the infinite reservoir of energy, creativity, and intelligence that lies deep within everyone.

Poetry springs from something deeper; it's beyond intelligence.

Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education.

I don't necessarily self-identify as a writer, 'cause it implies a certain level of intelligence.

Peellaert's comic strips were the literature of intelligence, imagination and romanticism.

Imagination, not intelligence, made us human.

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

I think education and intelligence (are) important, but not art. Not artistic education.

Human communities depend upon a diversity of talent not a singular conception of ability. and at the heart of the challenge is to reconstitute our sense of ability and intelligence

If you imitate the forms of a single artist through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get some nourishment from them.

Intelligence is not creative; judgment is not creative. If a sculptor is nothing but skill and mind, his hands will be without genius.

Consider how wool is turned into an elegantly designed carpet by coming into contact with an intelligent person.

Fantasy is, I believe, the great nourisher of imagination. To paraphrase Einstein on how to develop intelligence in young people: Read fairy tales. Then read more fairy tales.