Quotes About Creativity

The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry.

I've loved science fiction my whole life. But I've never made a science fiction movie.

Every creative act – in science, art, or religion – involves a regression to a more primitive level, a new innocence of perception liberated from the cataract of accepted beliefs.

Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the poet.

To present a scientific subject in an attractive and stimulating manner is an artistic task, similar to that of a novelist or even a dramatic writer. The same holds for writing textbooks.

Photography was the medium preeminently qualified to unite art with science. Photography was born in the years which ushered in the scientific age, an offspring of both science and art.

My imagination would never have served me as it has, but for the habit of commonplace, humble, patient, daily, toiling, drudging attention

Science is my territory, but science fiction is the landscape of my dreams.

It is our task, both in science and in society at large, to prove the conventional wisdom wrong and to make our unpredictable dreams come true

Science fiction is not about the freedom of imagination. It's about a free imagination pinched and howling in a vise that other people call real life.

Science fiction makes the implausible possible, while science fantasy makes the impossible plausible.

So often, science fiction helps to get young people interested in science. That's why I don't mind talking about science fiction. It has a real role to play: to seize the imagination.

Science is not addressed to poets.

My advice is to write about what you are interested in. If you read science fiction and fantasy, then write in that genre. If you read romance novels, then try writing one.

Science Fiction is a branch of children's literature.

Life isn't a science. We make it up as we go.

Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.

I love the science-fiction genre because there's always so many endless possibilities! It's a limitless genre and can be fun playing around with otherworldly ideas.

Psychology is a science, and teaching is an art; and sciences never generate arts directly out of themselves.

The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.

Working in this industry, I do feel that science and creativity turned out to be a very useful combination for me.

Science is the special province of the ego. And magic and art are the special province of something else. I could name it, but I won't. It prefers to be unnamed

When I was a young writer if you went to a party and told somebody you were a science-fiction writer you would be insulted. They would call you Flash Gordon all evening, or Buck Rogers.

The way I cook it's more like mad science. There's a lot of inspiration and dramatic failure with the occasional gorgeous success.