Quotes About Creativity

Crossing too many t's and dotting too many i's makes a room look overdone and tiresome. One should create something that fires the imagination without overemphasis.

I worry that free imagination is overvalued, and I think this carries risks.

A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.

If you can read and have more imagination than a doorknob, what need do you have for a 'movie version' of a novel?

Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.

An act of imagination is an act of self-acceptance.

Do not confuse fantasy with imagination; the former consumes itself in daydreaming, the latter stimulates creativity in the arts and in the sciences.

Few topographical boundaries can rival the frontiers of the mind.

Mere imagination would indeed be mere trifling; only no imagination is mere .

Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?

The imagination, give it the least license, dives deeper and soars higher than Nature goes.

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.

It is more important to let a child's imagination develop than it is to labor to inculcate in him or her some correct ethical point of view.

All paintings start with concept, which is another word for image or imagination. The mistake is to isolate the concept as if the idea did not need to be given permanent form.

Your imagination will create many friends

Our imagination just needs space. It's all it needs, that moment where you just sort of stare into the distance where your brain gets to sort of somehow rise up.

A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.

Try drawing or painting a scene you're working on. Often this will help free up you imagination.

The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own.

Can art be completely invented? It's a matter of shaping reality with the help of imagination.

Further, for once, I like the idea that people who think I'm a constant voice for the furthering of the imagination have to see that interest in a more materialistic fashion.

And one of the things that I've always loves about children is their vivid, unrestrained, and far-reaching imaginations - the depth and breadth of their creativity.

I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination

Imagination comes in after we have experience.