Quotes About Creativity

What an artist the world is losing in me

Creo que todo cuanto la imaginación humana ha representado es verdad

Whatever you can do or think you can begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Goethe.

No race can prosper till it learns That there is as much dignity In tilling a field As in writing a poem. —Booker T. Washington

it is imagination which makes one a leader while the lack of it makes one a follower.

Determined imagination is the beginning of all successful operation. The imagination, alone, is the means of fulfilling the intention.

Imagination is the only redemptive power in the universe.

What we must work for is not the development of the will, but the education of the imagination and the steadying of attention.

Imagination is not entirely untrammelled and free to move at will without any rules to constrain it. In fact, the contrary is true. Imagination travels according to habit. Imagination has choice, but it chooses according to habit. Awake or asleep, man's imagination is constrained to follow certain definite patterns. It is this benumbing influence of habit that man must change; if he does not, his dreams will fade under the paralysis of custom.

En lugar de desarrollar la imaginación del hombre, nuestro sistema educativo muchas veces lo sofoca tratando poner en la mente del hombre la sabiduría que busca. Le obliga a memorizar una cantidad de libros que, muy pronto, son refutados por libros posteriores. La educación no se logra poniendo algo en el hombre; su propósito es sacar del hombre la sabiduría que está latente en él.

The imaginative image is the only thing to seek.

Imagination is able to do anything, but only according to the internal direction of your attention.

Imagination is more important than knowledge." ALBERT EINSTEIN, On Science

The dynamic prevails over the static; the active over the passive. One who is a doer is magnetic and therefore infinitely more creative than any who merely hears. Be among the doers.

Make believe – great wonders are possible.

Often our most elaborate and original thoughts are determined by another.

A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about.

I probably wouldn't be singing if not for Michael Jackson. When I started singing, I didn't like my tone until my mom put me on to Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder, so listening to the way they used their instrument helped me get more comfortable with my own.

Then, only then, would the kingdom of man and woman really begin, joying and loving in creative labour.

You can't be beautiful and a writer, because to be a writer you have to be the one doing the looking; if you're beautiful people will be looking at you.

Someone has said religion lasted longer in Ireland because we were an imaginative people, and so could most vividly picture the fires of Hell.

Fionn learned that to make a poet you need: Fire of Song, Light of Knowledge and the Art of Recitation

You can't be beautiful and a writer, because to be a writer you have to be the one doing the looking; if you're beautiful people will be looking at you.

that elsewhere from which all music takes its origins.