Quotes About Creativity

How do we know imagination isn't just a different way of knowing something? A message from outside.

I think the imagination helps us move out of the purely oppositional mentality and see the world in a richer and more variegated way.

Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities.

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The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.

Not till the poets among us can be "literalists of the imagination"-above insolence and triviality and can present for inspection, "imaginary gardens with real toads in them." shall we have it.

The only realism in art is of the imagination.

There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.

The inhibitor of creativity isn't potential it's fear. We worry about saying the wrong thing or looking foolish so we govern our imagination.

When you use your imagination anything can happen.

I want to be remembered most as a writer - one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well.

Nothing too long imagined can be perfect in a wordly way.

The game I play is a very interesting one. It's imagination, in a tight straightjacket.

Imagination is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

One factor that has remained constant through all the twists and turns of the history of physical science is the decisive importance of the mathematical imagination.

An imaginative adventure does not enjoy the same corsets as reportage.

It is a certain rule that wit and passion are entirely incompatible. When the affections are moved, there is no place for the imagination.

Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.

Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.

My imagination creates my reality.

Your imagination is ten times more potent than your willpower. Unleashed, it provides a sense of certainty and tenacious vision that goes far beyond any limitation of the past.

Reality is but a poor excuse for not having an imagination.

The Christian should be the person who is alive, whose imagination absolutely boils, which moves, which produces something a bit different from God's world because God made us to be creative.

As an inclusive quality, imagination is thus our primary force for progress, whatever progress is.