Quotes About Creativity

I wrote a great deal during the next ten [early] years,but very little of any importance; there are not more than four or five papers which I can still remember with some satisfaction.

Art is made to trouble but science reassures.

Good writing isn't a science. It's an art, and the horizon is infinite. You can always get better.

In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination.

It seems to me that the poet has only to perceive that which others do not perceive, to look deeper than others look. And the mathematician must do the same thing.

[M]anufacturing, science and engineering are ... incredibly creative. I'd venture to say more so than creative advertising agencies and things that are known as the creative industries.

Execution is the chariot of genius.

Look at those animals and remember the greatest scientists in the world have never discovered how to make grass into milk.

In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are capable of it.

Write me a creature that thinks as well as a man or better than a man, but not like a man.

We mystify the art of moviemaking, but it's not amystical science. You take a good screenplay, put a group togetherand you hammer it out.

I think the Macintosh was created by a group of people who felt that ah there wasn't a strict vision between sort of science and art.

I don't play accurately--any one can play accurately--but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.

Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.

Pop music really is a love and a joy and a science [of songwriting].

Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.

It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations.

Computer science … jobs should be way more interesting than even going to Wall Street or being a lawyer--or, I can argue, than anything but perhaps biology, and there it's just a tie.

Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.

There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.

The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.

Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.

Study the science of art and the art of science.

Who would not have been laughed at if he had said in 1800 that metals could be extracted from their ores by electricity or that portraits could be drawn by chemistry.