Quotes About Creativity

yes, writing is mostly a dream, but angels visit in dreams

You are the only one who can dream your dreams.

You must build castles in the air, how else will you learn to build?

A dreamer is a gifted man, who, plucks out his dreams of sparkling stars.

Fiction makes your dreams come true, and, as a writer, fiction allows you to delve into the area of miracles.

All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are.

There's no diploma in the world that declares you as an artist—it's not like becoming a doctor. You can declare yourself an artist and then figure out how to be an artist.

You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.

Sometimes the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds.

Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.

New facts often trigger new ideas

I never got a pass mark in math ... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books.

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.

We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.

It is better to solve one problem five different ways, than to solve five problems one way.

I learned how to communicate and articulate myself from ballet. It's just insane to me, when they don't think of that as a part of our education.

Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.

There is no depth to education without art.

Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.

I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a dreamer.

The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.