Quotes About Creativity

Imagination and reality have little in common

What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a human being who is not myself. It is the act of a writer's imagination that I set the most high.

Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success on the stage.

If you don't have imagination you're lost. But it's a virtue that's becoming increasingly rare, especially in its higher form: spontaneity. Mad, happy spontaneity.

The culture is with some rapidity fearing its imagination. I don't know why. Imagination is not of interest.

I existed in a cocoon, wrapped in daydreams. It's dangerous to be too much alone with an imagination.

When an imaginative person gets into mental trouble, the line between seeming and being has a way of disappearing-

[T]he imagination, like certain wild animals, will not breed in captivity.

My imagination is a monastery, and I am its monk

Imagination is better than a sharp instrument. To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.

How can you read this? There's no pictures!" "Well, some people use their imagination." – Gaston & Belle

Ever let the Fancy roam Pleasure never is at home.

Reason respects the differences and imagination the similitudes of things.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.

See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.

Aspirations don't make poets, perseverance does. Flow with the emotions, let your imagination soar, find what ignites the fire within and let it go wild.

Imagination is reality in one's mind waiting to come out at right time with enough efforts.

Novelty is the fuel on which the imagination runs.

The imagination goes where it will, you can be set aloft by it, or you can cage it with reason.

The more children there are in the world, the more the world is filled with imagination.

Knowledge dilutes imagination.

Our imagination is God's ingenious gift that hands us the privilege of romping and playing in realities that we can't see only because we've yet to create them.