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Quotes About Creativity

Personally there is first: imagination; second: the act of writing - and third: the act/act of vocalizing.
~ Anne Waldman
We do live, all of us, on many different levels, and for most artists the world of imagination is more real than the world of the kitchen sink.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Art degraded, Imagination denied.
~ William Blake
Cynicism cripples our imagination and limits our ability to see faint possibilities amidst glaring problems.
~ Cory Booker
I'd never done anything that required a five-year commitment. To build a show that seems to have kept the imagination of the world so much was a bit otherworldly.
~ John Noble
You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination.
~ Charles Keating, Jr.
Contentment is the result of a limited imagination.
~ Carolyn Wells
Liberty is one of the imagination's most precious possessions.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Hallucinogenic plants act as enzymes which stimulate imagination.
~ Terence McKenna
I've never suffered from writer's block. I have plenty of ideas, sometimes too many. I've always had a strong imagination. If it dries up I'll stop and look for another career.
~ J. G. Ballard
Imagination is the voice of the daring.
~ Henry Miller
When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.
~ Gloria Steinem
We suffered failures of imagination just like everyone else, our daring was wanting, and our daily contentment too nearly adequate for us to give it up.
~ Joshua Ferris
The dreamer is the whole dream. For us, dreaming and imagination are coupled with action to treat our lives, our business and our relationships as a constant unfolding.
~ Tim Girvin
The trouble with many religions, accused of wishful thinking, is that they are not wishful enough. They show a deplorable lack of imagination.
~ Alan Watts
What better way to expand your imagination than to read!
~ Laura Marano
Art is the manipulation of someone else's imagination.
~ Sol Saks
Sometimes good television doesn't depend on money, it depends on imagination and good people directing, casting and doing the job with talented people.
~ Elisabeth Sladen
Imagination is the only true thing in the world!
~ Sarah Orne Jewett
For the most part Hollywood is a world of imagination.
~ Ryan Reynolds
What you call magic is nothing more than an act of the imagination fired by the senses, then given shape by the power of your aura.
~ Michael Scott
Imagination comes of not having things.
~ LeRoy Neiman
The death of Satan was a tragedy For the imagination.
~ Wallace Stevens
Granny knew all about bad fortune-telling. It was harder than the real thing. You needed a good imagination.
~ Terry Pratchett