Quotes About Creativity

to understand pretending," Ombric was fond of saying, "is to conquer all barriers of time and space.

To understand creativity is to conquer the boundaries of time and space.

I used the excess dirt to make a few more continents. Australia is my best work, I think," -Bunnymund

Entender con la imaginación -solía decir Ombric- es conquistar los límites del tiempo y del espacio.

But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance.

Do something new and you are new. How boring it is not to fire machine guns.

Oye, todo es verdad — replicó Francis —. Todo cuanto te pasa por la imaginación, aunque apeste a chorrada, es verdad.

All gardening is landscape painting.

with hand-painted flowers.

Whatever you think you're not capable of doing, the minute you think it, the moment it enters your mind, just in the imagining, it's already been done. Only a matter of time before your hands follow through.

But I believe if you tell a story, it's like sending a nightingale into the air with the hope that its song will never be forgotten.

Far better, I believe, to be like children and open ourselves to every beautiful possibility, for there is nothing our hearts can imagine that is not so.

I had discovered a terrible vulnerability I myself which I think of not as cowardliness but as an ability to imagine too much.

Writing is magic for those willing to follow their imagination to a region where anything is possible.

I am interested in computers and technology, and art, photography, and design.

The iPod was a leak. It was a danger. I brought it down to the basement and laid it on my little worktable, glass side up, and I got a hammer and smashed it.

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

For poets the wages of sin are poverty.

Oh phosphorescence. Now there's a word to lift your hat to... To find that phosphorescence, that light within — is the genius behind poetry.

But in a private library, you can at any moment converse with Socrates or Shakespeare or Carlyle or Dumas or Dickens or Shaw or Barrie or Galsworthy. And there is no doubt that in these books you see these men at their best. They wrote for you. They "laid themselves out," they did their ultimate best to entertain you, to make a favorable impression. You are necessary to them as an audience is to an actor; only instead of seeing them masked, you look into their innermost heart of heart.

What matters, though, is not the space you're put in to work; what matters is the work you do in it. The Manhattan Project, the World War II race to develop the atomic bomb, also started out under a football stadium. Beneath the stands of Stagg Field at the University of Chicago, a team of physicists led by Enrico Fermi built a crude fission reactor, brought its uranium fuel to critical mass, and set off a chain reaction that changed the world. We

It's how creativity works. Especially in humans. For every good idea, ten thousand idiotic ones must first be posed, sifted, tried out, and discarded. A mind that's afraid to toy with the ridiculous will never come up with the brilliantly original.

There are thousands of thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen and writes.

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write.