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Quotes About Creativity

Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Often we use the word problem only because we have not learned that imagination and creativity can handle the situation.
~ Wayne Dyer
An artist's imagination is his greatest tool
~ Michael Jackson
You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.
~ Denis Waitley
A poor original is better than a good imitation.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
To write a song you must have an imagination, to have an imagination you must be free.
~ Bruno Mars
My imagination is a kind of animal. So what I do is keep it alive.
~ Haruki Murakami
The peculiar value of geography lies in its fitness to nourish the mind with ideas and furnish the imagination with pictures.
~ Charlotte Mason
Science is vastly more stimulating to the imagination than the classics.
~ John B. S. Haldane
Imagination grows by exercise.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
In my dream the angel shrugged and said, if we fail this time, it will be a failure of imagination. And then she placed the world gently in the palm of my hand.
~ Brian Andreas
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I was a wild, mischievous kid, and I had tremendous imagination. Any experience I had, I'd try to reenact it.
~ Adrien Brody
Executives are constrained not by resources but by their imagination.
~ C. K. Prahalad
Authority is itself inherently an act of imagination.
~ Richard Sennett
God has given us our talents, not to copy the talents of others, but rather to use our brains and imagination in order to obtain the revelation of true beauty.
~ Louis Comfort Tiffany
The moment there is imagination there is myth
~ Camille Paglia
Imagination encircles the world.
~ Albert Einstein
Active imagination requires a state of reverie, half-way between sleep and waking.
~ Carl Jung
One of the greatest assets you have is your imagination.
~ Mark Victor Hansen
This alone is to be feared - the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of the spirit. The death of the body is to that, I think, a little thing.
~ Winifred Holtby
I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in other people's places. It makes them kind and sympathetic and understanding.
~ Jean Webster, Daddy-Long-Legs
There is no map that can show you how to leap. The map for this is somewhere in our own imagination.
~ Swami Paramananda
The essence of art is to recapturel the fantasy and the imagination of a child again, but without the innocence of a child.
~ Romare Bearden