Quotes About Creativity

Phantasie ist wichtiger als Wissen, denn Wissen ist begrenzt.

In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy.

It is clear that all the valuable things, material, spiritual, and moral, which we receive from society can be traced back through countless generations to certain creative individuals. The use of fire, the cultivation of edible plants, the steam engine—each was discovered by one man.

The creative imagination is the essential element of a true scientist, and fairy tales are the childhood stimulus to this quality.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.

Fantasy is way more important than knowledge because knowledge is limited.

Never argue with an artist.

Si buscas resultados distintos, no hagas siempre lo mismo.

The best that Gauss has given us was likewise an exclusive production. If he had not created his geometry of surfaces, which served Riemann as a basis, it is scarcely conceivable that anyone else would have discovered it. I do not hesitate to confess that to a certain extent a similar pleasure may be found by absorbing ourselves in questions of pure geometry.

He suffered incessantly from the fact that his critical faculties transcended his constructive capacities. In a manner of speaking, his critical sense robbed him of his love for the offspring of his own mind even before they were born.

Jeder intelligente Narr kann Dinge größer und komplexer machen. Es braucht ein Stück Genialität – und jede Menge Mut -, sich in die entgegengesetzte Richtung zu bewegen.

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used to create them.

While knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create.

There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's books and write your own.

Zna?ajni problemi s kojima se suo?avamo ne mogu biti riješeni na nivou razmišljanja koje je probleme kreiralo.

Be a voice, not an echo.

Visualization is more important than knowledge

The knowledge in not power, power is the imagination!!

L'immaginazione è più importante della conoscenza. La conoscenza è limitata; l'immaginazione abbraccia il mondo

While it is true that scientific results are entirely independent from religious or moral considerations, those individuals to whom we owe the great creative achievements of science were all of them imbued with the truly religious conviction that this universe of ours is something perfect and susceptible to the rational striving for knowledge.

Violence sometimes may have cleared away obstructions quickly, but it never has proved itself creative.

What a person does on his own, without being stimulated by the thoughts and experiences of others, is even in the best of cases rather paltry and monotonous.

and I think (like you, by the way) that theory cannot be fabricated out of the results of observation, but that it can only be invented. [Letter to Karl Popper; 11 Sep 1939]

Logik bringt dich von A nach B, deine Vorstellungskraft bringt dich überall hin.