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Quotes About Creativity

Music gives wings to the mind and flight to the imagination.
~ Plato
I call people rich when they're able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
~ Henry James
If we remain wedded to the way education is currently provided we cannot imagine other ways. We need some imagination, some fantasy, some new ways of thinking - some magic in fact.
~ Hedley Beare
Imagination awakens ambition, then causes it to lose its way.
~ Mason Cooley
Sometimes even the imagination lets one down.
~ Mary Balogh, Simply Magic
What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.
~ Shia LaBeouf
Christmas is best pondered, not with logic, but with imagination.
~ Max Lucado
Imagination is a place where all the important answers live.
~ Joe Meno
Imagination is the one weapon against reality.
~ Jules de Gaultier
Can imagination act Perpendicular to fact? Can it be a kite that flies Till the Earth , umbrella-wise, Folds and drops away from sight?
~ Philip José Farmer
I hate to recreate the whole world into my imagination.
~ Ludivine Sagnier
I think that is the secret of great acting. You have to bring your imagination to the party. You've got to have a great imagination.
~ Steven Spielberg
The way I think of the psychedelics is, they are catalysts to the imagination.
~ Terence McKenna
A financer is a pawnbroker with an imagination.
~ Arthur Wing Pinero
One should never turn one's back on a vivid imagination.
~ Lorrie Moore
The imagination is a dimension of nonlocal information
~ Terence McKenna
The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form.
~ Carol Ann Duffy
To be an actor or actress, you have to feel on a deep level and tap into emotions that you've never felt before. You're imagining how something would feel. You have to use your imagination so much.
~ Elle Fanning
Im the youngest of four, but my closest sibling is 10 years older. I had a lot of imagination. I was running around playing little games by myself. But I never thought I was going to be an actor.
~ Daniel Breaker
Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call sages, and those who act upon it, we call artists.
~ Tom Robbins
I don't know if we ever have enough distance to "see" our own trajectory. We're in the muddled middle of it. Who knows what will last, what poems will take hold of the imaginations of the future.
~ Dorianne Laux
Our imagination often is more horrifying than being shown something.
~ David Schwimmer
I'll not punish you for having an imagination.
~ Betty Smith
Common sense is usually lack of imagination, and imagination is usually lack of common sense.
~ Evan Esar