Quotes About Creativity

Art is something absolute, something positive, which gives power just as food gives power. While creative science is a mental food, art is the satisfaction of the soul.

Man's greatest asset is the unsettled mind.

Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.

Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.

Sure, 90% of science fiction is crud. That's because 90% of everything is crud.

Art can contradict Science.

Chance is the only source of true novelty.

You know, there's such a very thin dividing line between inspiration and obsession that sometimes it's very hard to decide which side we're really on.

There is an art to science, and a science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole.

Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.

It's only rock and roll, my god! It's not rocket science.

I am accused often of too much experimentation.., but what else should I do when all other factors of man are in the same condition. I thrust forward into space as science and the rest do.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.

It is most important in creative science not to give up. If you are an optimist you will be willing to "try" more than if you are a pessimist.

Like thousands of other boys, I had a little chemical laboratory in our cellar and think that some of our friends thought me a bit crazy.

Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination.

By studying the masters and not their pupils.

My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method.

Pure logic could never lead us to anything but tautologies; it can create nothing new; not from it alone can any science issue.

What I really want is a creative person. You can always hire a Ph.D. to take care of the details.

With science fiction there's endless possibilities.

I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies.