Quotes About Creativity

Nature engenders the science of painting

Art isn't a science or a job; it's alive.

Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.

Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.

In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their appeal.

I'm sure there's an alternate universe where I got to become a pulpy science fiction writer.

I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.

The physicist's greatest tool is his wastebasket.

It's not rocket science to make a movie.

The initial stage, the act of conceiving or inventing a theory, seems to me neither to call for logical analysis nor to be susceptible of it.

Doing what has never been done before is intellectually seductive, whether or not we deem it practical.

Individual curiosity, often working without practical ends in mind, has always been a driving force for innovation.

Every form of art is another way of seeing the world. Another perspective, another window. And science - that's the most spectacular window of all. You can see the entire universe from there.

The test of interesting people is that subject matter doesn't matter.

We should continually be striving to transform every art into a science: in the process, we advance the art.

We are terribly imaginative, as far as technique in science is concerned. As far as changes in social arrangements are concerned, we lack utterly in imagination.

The art of science is as important as so-called technical science. You need both. It's this combination that must be recognized and acknowledged and valued.

Newton's apple and Cezanne's apple are discoveries more closely related than they seem.

Only when creative people take ownership of cosmic discovery will society accept science as the cultural activity that it is.

The basis of the discovery is imagination, careful reasoning and experimentation where the use of knowledge created by those who came before is an important component.

Mathematics is the summit of human thinking. It has all the creativity and imagination that you can find in all kinds of art, but unlike art-charlatans and all kinds of quacks will not succeed there.

Art and design are not luxuries, nor somehow incompatible with science and engineering.

I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer.

Music, to me, is not math or science. It is a language.