Quotes About Creativity

The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.

I've called science fiction 'reality ahead of schedule'

I didn't think; I experimented.

I'm convinced that art and science activate the same parts of the brain.

It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it is the exact opposite.

Our garage was basically science fair central.

Fantasy and science fiction can be literal as well as allegorical and there's nothing wrong with enjoying a monster like a giant squid for what it is, as well as searching for metaphor.

Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellences which are put of the reach of the rules of art: a power which no precepts can teach, and which no industry can acquire.

Clouds are like boogers hanging on the nostrils of the moon.

Science disembodies; art embodies.

It is sometimes easier to circumvent prevailing difficulties [in science] rather than to attack them.

If we want to solve a problem that we have never solved before, we must leave the door to the unknown ajar.

If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.

Not only was [Edwin Land] one of the great inventors of our time but, more important, he saw the intersection of art and science and business and built an organization to reflect that.

To have ideas one must have imagination. To express ideas one must have science.

Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.

No one suggests that writing about science will turn the entire world into a model of judgment and creative thought. It will be enough if they spread the knowledge as widely as possible.

Only art and science make us suspect the existence of life to a higher level, and maybe also instill hope thereof.

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything.

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.