Quotes About Creativity

Art alone develops weaklings, science alone, monsters. Somewhere, somehow, we must combine the two.

For one person who is blessed with the power of invention, many will always be found who have the capacity of applying principles.

Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.

The new art must be based upon science - in particular, upon mathematics, as the most exact, logical, and graphically constructive of the sciences.

The technical genius which could find answers was not cooped up in military or civilian bureaucracy, but was to be found in universities and in the people at large.

Progress in science depends on new techniques, new discoveries and new ideas, probably in that order.

Engineering without imagination sinks to a trade.

No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.

I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.

The man who cannot occasionally imagine events and conditions of existence that are contrary to the causal principle as he knows it will never enrich his science by the addition of a new idea.

We especially need imagination in science. Question everything.

Sometimes a good idea comes to you when you are not looking for it. Through an improbable combination of coincidence, naivete and lucky mistakes.

Religion can only dream to do what science and art does every day.

The more materialistic science becomes, the more angels shall I paint. Their wings are my protest in favor of the immortality of the soul.

Those [scientists] who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.

I love fairytales. I like fantasy a lot, science fiction, I like magic. I like to create magic. I love magic.

I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining.

There is no difference between science and art when it comes to creativeness, productiveness, to come to conclusions and to formulations.

There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. ... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.

Science is moving closer to weaponry, and Art is moving closer to commercialism. And never the twain shall meet.

All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot make great discoveries.

Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world.

They think they can make fuel from horse manure - now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.

Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.