Quotes About Creativity

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Play is the highest form of research.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

At least once a day, allow yourself the freedom to think and dream for yourself.

Excellence is doing a common thing in an uncommon way.

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity.

It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.

The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.

The person who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The person who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever seen before.

For an idea that does not first seem insane, there is no hope.

Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions.

Creativity is the residue of time wasted.

Once a day allow yourself the freedom to dream...

The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Necessity is the mother of all invention.

If someone can enjoy marching to music in rank and file, I can feel only contempt for him; he has received his large brain by mistake, a spinal cord would have been enough.

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking

It is important to foster individuality, for only the individual can produce the new ideas.

I was originally supposed to become an engineer but the thought of having to expend my creative energy on things that make practical everyday life even more refined, with a loathsome capital gain as the goal, was unbearable to me.

Life without playing music is inconceivable for me. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music, I get most joy in life out of music.