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Quotes About Creativity

Innovation-the heart of the knowledge economy-is fundamentally social.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
When we venture beyond the edge of our knowledge, all we have is art.
~ Jonah Lehrer
Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.
~ Howard Nemerov
The knowledge that it takes to write a poem gets burnt up in the writing of the poem.
~ Li-Young Lee
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
~ Plato
Imagination is not enough. Knowledge is necessary.
~ Paul Scott
Serendipity is the way to make discoveries, by accident but also by sagacity, of things one is not in quest of. Based on experience, knowledge, it is the creative exploitation of the unforeseen.
~ Adrian Bejan
Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
An artist needs knowledge and the power of observation only so that he can tell from what he is abstaining, and to be sure that his abstention will not appear artificial or false.
~ Andrei Tarkovsky
Creativity is the crucial variable in the process of turning knowledge into value
~ John Kao
Imagination Is More Powerful Than Knowledge Because Knowledhe Is Limited But Imagination Is Without Boundaries
~ Albert Einstein
It's not just the adage 'write what you know,' it's about gathering up all of the knowledge and experience you've collected up to now to help you dive into the things you don't know.
~ Sarah Kay
The world of fantasy fills the gaps in people's knowledge.
~ Fred Vargas
Internet has been really amazing, and I think it's a place of great passion, creativity, and knowledge.
~ Lauren Mayberry
Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.
~ Robert Henri
I have simply wished to assert the reasoned and independent feeling of my own individuality within a total knowledge of tradition.
~ Henri Matisse
Does it not occur to people that I might be artificial by nature?
~ Maurice Ravel
When literature is discovered, a revelation occurs: the joyful, exultant knowledge that anything can happen.
~ Alberto Manguel
But knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll; Chill Penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul.
~ Thomas Gray
For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.
~ Lewis Carroll
Knowledge falters when imagination clips its wings or fears to use them.
~ John Dewey
Creativity requires quite a lot of faith - not just in yourself but also in the knowledge that you have the right to proceed, even when you may not know exactly what you're doing.
~ Twyla Tharp
In the field of knowledge is all possibility.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
The imagination never forgets; it is a re-membering. It is not foundationless, but most reasonable, and it alone uses all the knowledge of the intellect.
~ Henry David Thoreau