Quotes About Creativity

I don't know what imagination is, if not an unpruned, tangled kind of memory.

The freedom of personal expression, ideas and imagination, working in collaboration with people from diverse backgrounds - is what's needed to spawn creativity.

A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their fiction. A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.

I have never looked for dream in reality or reality in dream. I have allowed my imagination free play, and I have not been led astray by it.

I don't understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy.

Reality is not always probable, or likely. But if you're writing a story, you have to make it as plausible as you can, because if not, the reader's imagination will reject it.

You have to be careful what you imagine, because the act of imagining is the act of encouraging yourself to be a certain kind of person.

Fish stimulates the brain, but fishing stimulates the imagination.

Change happens not just by giving the mind new arguments but also by feeding the imagination new beauties

Any person with any imagination is bound to be afraid.

Imagination is the mightiest despot.

One function of the imagination in autobiographical writing is to allow the writer to try out different versions of the self.

I think acting is a mixture of instinct, imagination and inventiveness. All you can learn as an actor is basic technique.

It's important to excite the imagination of a woman.

When you make a thriller/horror, darkness is [your] friend, because it lets the imagination go wild and what not. So you always end up going into darkness.

The world of imagination is the world of eternity.

If you take the shackles off your imagination, you can go anywhere with science fiction.

Imagination is a powerful force underlying all knowing

I find it depressing that people think you have to be on drugs to watch [my stuff], that's a cop out, use your brain, use your imagination.

The human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given imagination.

Facts are the soil from which the story grows. Imagination is a last resort.

My dear, beautiful and imaginative things can be destroyed. Beauty and imagination cannot.

While the sciences are hugely important, let us not leave behind a childs imagination.

Our fundamental task as human beings is to seek out connections-to exercise our imaginations.