Quotes About Creativity

The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering.

You see, this would be a death by the imagination. And though the imagination feeds on phantoms, it needs a premise in reality to begin with. Then it can go on from there under its own power.

I'm not a separatist. The imagination is integrative. That's how you make the new -- by putting something else with what you've got. And I'm unashamedly an American integrationist.

A pioneer should have imagination, should be able to enjoy the idea of things more than the things themselves.

I understand abstract art as an attempt to feed imagination with a world built through the basic sensations of the eyes.

[History is] petrified imagination.

Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master.

I am absorbed in the magic of movement and light. Movement never lies. It is the magic of what I call the outer space of the imagination.

The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Imagination is the air of mind.

We can live with lots of things, but we can't live without imagination, we can't live without hope.

Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

One's range [of ideas] is limited by one's interests and imagination and by one's passion.

I've always been introverted and so from a very young age I would play different scenarios in my head and let my imagination run free.

Books have been thought of as windows to another world of imagination

We all want to have a place where we can dream and escape anything that wraps steel bands around our imagination and creativity.

Some simple dishes recommend themselves to our imaginations as well as palates.

Microsoft's only factory asset is the human imagination.

An educational foundation is only part of the equation. In order for creativity to flourish and imagination to take hold, we also need to expose our children to the arts from a very young age.

All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is not at all a desirable quality in a statesman.

By brain is meant, in the first instance, something more than the pink-grey jelly of the anatomist. It is, even to a scientist, the organ of imagination.

Sometimes the most exciting journey you can make is through your own imagination.