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Quotes About Creativity

Everybody needs some inspiration, Everybody needs some motivation, mix it up with some imagination, and use your natural gifts.
~ Ray Davies
Imagination is the true magic carpet.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Imagination is essential and it comes first, for without imagination we are aimless.
~ C. Northcote Parkinson
There are three things you need to live abundantly: awareness, imagination and gratitude.
~ Sonia Choquette
If you get an image try to destroy it.
~ Richard Diebenkorn
Art is the imagination at play in the field of time. Let yourself play.
~ Julia Cameron
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge.
~ Robert Fulghum
The human race is governed by its imagination.
~ Napoleon
The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.
~ Terence McKenna
Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.
~ Ned Rorem
Capability means imagination.
~ Napoleon Hill
I dislike frontiers, political or intellectual, and I find that ignoring them is an essential catalyst for creative thought. Ideas should flow without hindrance in their natural course.
~ Michael Atiyah
The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
~ Cesare Pavese
Imagination is the beginning of creation.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The difference between great and average is, mostly, having the imagination and zeal to re-create yourself daily.
~ Tom Peters
Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination.
~ Alice Morse Earle
You know you're in trouble when your own imagination starts punishing you.
~ Eoin Colfer
I think I still keep my sense of wonder, which I call childlike, not childish, childlike. I still have a vivid imagination, and I like to try a lot of new things.
~ Iris Apfel
Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.
~ Luis Bunuel
Some might think that the creativity, imagination, and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Our imagination it is our greatest ally . . . Imagination is a very, very powerful thing. It literally invents the path before you.
~ Glen Hansard
The [political] left are people with an imagination and the right are those without an imagination.
~ Amos Oz
The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.
~ William Trevor