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Quotes About Creativity

A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.
~ Sidney Sheldon
The elasticity of imagination and compassion is what writing and reading promote.
~ Julia Alvarez
If you cannot imagine with the mind's eye much more than you can see with the mortal eye, you have a very poor imagination indeed.
~ William Blake
The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
Imagination is ... the foundation of all invention and innovation.
~ J. K. Rowling
My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
~ John Steinbeck, East of Eden
Imagination is the eye of the soul.
~ Joseph Joubert
Creativity grows out of two things: curiosity & imagination.
~ Benny Goodman
To get such beauty from something that has been produced from the artist's own imagination appealed to me enormously.
~ Solomon R. Guggenheim
Anybody can do anything that he imagines.
~ Henry Ford
To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.
~ Thomas A. Edison
The future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create.
~ Barack Obama
Do unto others as they wish, but with imagination.
~ Marcel Duchamp
Your imagination, my dear fellow, is worth more than you imagine.
~ Louis Aragon
I mainly let my imagination be my reality. Fantasy is my reality.
~ Lana Del Rey
The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
~ Henry Ford
Use your imagination until your big dream feels so familiar that its manifestation is the next logical step.
~ Esther Hicks
They [formulae 1.10 - 1.12 of Ramanujan] must be true because, if they were not true, no one would have had the imagination to invent them.
~ G. H. Hardy
I've always thought that each person invented himself… that we are each a figment of our own imagination. And some people have a greater ability to imagine than others.
~ David Geffen
Each of us has an Aladdin's Lamp which psychologists call creative imagination.
~ Alex Faickney Osborn
There's nothing like a shipwreck to spark the imagination of everyone who was not on that specific ship.
~ Jon Stewart
The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.
~ Ian Mcewan
What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
~ Sylvia Plath