Quotes About Creativity

Creative people see Prometheus in a mirror, never Pandora.

Science fiction is very healthy in its form.

Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.

Imagination is a form of seeing

Guessing before proving! Need I remind you that it is so that all important discoveries have been made?

Science, math and engineering can give you the exhilarating power to become not mere spectators or consumers, but the active explorers, makers and doers who will help invent the future.

Every great artist raises art to a science, and every great scientist raises science to an art, hence we have Michelangelo's David and Einstein's Theory of Relativity.

The artist's conception of his art or the scientist's of his science is usually as great as his conception of his own worth is small.

Science is an essentially anarchic enterprise.

Discoveries that are anticipated are seldom the most valuable. ... It's the scientist free to pilot his vessel across hidden shoals into open seas who gives the best value.

What we cannot express by the art of thinking, by the art of science or philosophy or logic, we can and should express by the poetic, visual, or some other arts.

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.

Few artists thrive in solitude and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with similar interests.

Science fiction is for real, space opera is for fun.

By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.

It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.

It's one of those things that if I was smart enough to explain it in words, I wouldn't have had to make a movie "World Of Tomorrow" out of it. It's a love letter to science fiction.

There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics.

I warn you against believing that advertising is a science.

There are three creative ideas which, each in its turn, have been central to science. They are the idea of order, the idea of causes, and the idea of chance.

Science fiction is like a blender - you can put in any historical experience and take influences from everything you see, read or experience.

When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who'd get to be funny on talk shows and then I wanted to retire and write science fiction.

There can be a science to joke writing, there are certainly rules and patterns that can be followed, but I think most of the best comedy goes beyond the rules.

They look at what's more important, like subjects to help with the SAT's, etc. They miss that music is vital. It offers a break from a stressful day of science and math and it's different.