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Quotes About Creativity

Though progress starts with the imagination, only work can make things happen. And work itself works best when fueled, again by the imagination.
~ Theodore Levitt
God and the imagination are one.
~ Wallace Stevens
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun
~ Pablo Picasso
Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.
~ Terry Pratchett
Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.
~ Terry Brooks
I am very frustrated by fear of imagination, I don't think that's healthy.
~ J.K. Rowling
Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.
~ Edward Abbey
Research, though toilsome, is easy; imagination, though delightful, is difficult.
~ A. C. Bradley
Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality.
~ Jean Baudrillard
As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
Always have a vivid imagination, for you never know when you might need it.
~ J. K. Rowling
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimagininative.
~ Oscar Wilde
The world would never amount to a hill of beans if people didn't use their imaginations to think of the impossible.
~ Pete Seeger
Imagination can help you reach into the heavens to grasp an idea, bring it down to earth, and make it work.
~ Walter Farley
Use your imagination. Trust me, your lives are not interesting. Don't write them down.
~ W. P. Kinsella
If you don't have imagination, you stop being human; animals don't have imagination; Alzheimer's is the death of imagination.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper.
~ George William Curtis
The imagination is a palette of bright colors. You can use it to touch up memories — or you can use it to paint dreams.
~ Robert Brault
It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that
~ Robin Wright
Authors do not supply imaginations.
~ Nella Larsen
I think we live only through our dreams and our imagination.
~ Diana Vreeland
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
~ Martial
Reading supplies bread for imagination to feed on and bones for it to chew on.
~ Alex Faickney Osborn
An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.
~ Eduard Hanslick