Quotes About Creativity

Imagination rules the earth

Structure is translation software for your imagination.

Where bright imagination reigns, the fine-wrought spirit feels acuter pains.

One siupreme fact which I have discovered is that it is not willpower, but fantasy and imagination that ceates. Imagination is the creative force. Imagination creates reality.

Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination.

I think of myself as a songwriter, a weaver of story and imagination in a way that a novelist might write a book.

Literature speaks the language of the imagination, and the study of literature is supposed to train and improve the imagination.

You could almost describe psychedelics as enzymes for the activity of the imagination.

For me, drawing is a way of navigating the imagination and it remains the fundamental vehicle of my practice. Drawing allows me to be at my most inventive.

That, of course, is what great works of imagination do for us: They make us a little restless, destabilize us, question our preconceived notions and formulas.

Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination.

And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem.

Mediocrity is perhaps due not so much to lack of imagination as to lack of faith in the imagination, lack of the capacity for this abandon.

Long may Louis de Broglie continue to inspire those who suspect that what is proved by impossibility proofs is lack of imagination.

Imagination does not stir at the suggestion of the feeble, much diluted stuff that is too often put into childrenÂ's hands.

I am really the victim of other people's imagination.

I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.

One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?

The need for innovation – the lifeblood of business – is widely recognized, and imagination and play are key ingredients for making it happen.

When I am thickening my plots, I like to think 'What if ... What if ... ' Thus my imagination can move from the likely, which everyone can think of, to the unlikely-but-possible, my preferred plot.

The moon develops the imagination, as chemicals develop photographic images.

If you're going to perform inception, you need imagination. You need the simplest version of the idea-the one that will grow naturally in the subject's mind. Subtle art.

Imagination is more valuable than information.

Fear comes with imagination, it's a penalty, it's the price of imagination.