Quotes About Creativity

Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine.

We have all lost our possessions and many of us our homes," he said. "But these losses, severe though they may seem, remind us of what no person can take, and that is our minds and our imaginations.

The problem is not one of prediction. It is one of imagination.

There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.

It's much easier to conjure characters strictly from your imagination than to have to think about whether you're representing people in a truthful way.

To them though, not to us, we were just a catalyst for their imagination.

Because fear kills everything," Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination.

The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas.

The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of the imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases.

There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste. [Ger., Es ist nichts furchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack.]

what sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination

Imagination in business is the ability to perceive opportunity.

When you close the book, does the story end? No! That's such a bland way to read. Every story goes on forever in our imaginations, and its characters live on.

I think fantasy literature is the one true literature of hope and imagination.

Artists with serious aspirations need to be left alone to follow the course of their own imagination.

Not thinking it's possible is a failure of imagination.

I'm really the addition of other peoples' imagination, quite honestly. It's what they see me as, and I'm very happy to comply. I find things are more varied that way.

Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination.

Only in your imagination can you revise.

The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.

There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.

Some people have vivid imagination, some not so vivid, but everybody has vivid dreams.

I like imagination -- and the way I think things could be, had been, or should be -- better than reality.

Only imagination that towers can reproduce evanescence and render rigidity flexible.