Quotes About Creativity

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Through care taken over trends, the desire to be novel and affectation knowledge, we repudiate our art, our instinct, our own way of doing things; it is absurd and stupid

Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I've told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to.

Imagination without knowledge may create beautiful things, knowledge without imagination can create only perfect ones.

Although knowledge of structure is helpful, real creativity comes from leaps of faith in which you jump to something illogical. But those leaps form the memorable moments in movies and plays.

Intelligence and capability are not enough. There must be the joy of doing something beautiful.

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

The main fuel to speed the world's progress is our stock of knowledge, and the brake is our lack of imagination.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is the only musician who had as much knowledge asgenius, and as much genius as knowledge.

The idea of Disneyland is a simple one. It will be a place for people to find happiness and knowledge.

Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.

The great gift of the human imagination is that it has no limits or ending.

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

Art is a higher type of knowledge than experience.

Creativity depends on a number of things: experience, including knowledge and technical skills; talent; an ability to think in new ways; and the capacity to push through uncreative dry spells.

Discoveries are made by pursuing possibilities suggested by existing knowledge.

You imagination is more important than your knowledge.

Imagination without knowledge leads no farther than the back yard of primitive art, the child's scrawl on the fence, and the crank's message in the market place. Art is never simple.

Information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious otter of roses out of the otter.

The kind of intelligence a genius has is a different sort of intelligence. The thinking of a genius does not proceed logically. It leaps with great ellipses. It pulls knowledge from God knows where.

Our salvation lies not in knowing, but in creating!

Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition.

Chess is not only knowledge and logic

To be a writer you should read, write and talk to people, hear their knowledge, hear their problems. Be a good listener. The rest will come.