Quotes About Creativity

The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

Tone Synthesizer' Amazes Scientists." The Times explained that the machine, "built about five years ago but kept secret during the war, has an almost infinite number of tones . . . so that not only every kind of tone ever produced (including the human voice) can be reproduced accurately by measurement but also millions of tones that no present musical instrument is able to make."16

Ethnic differences are the very essence of cultural diversity and national creativity.

Freaks are the much needed escape from the humdrum. They are poetry.

Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.

The least of man's original emanation is better than the best of a borrowed thought.

The artist needs but a roof, a crust of bread, and his easel, and all the rest God gives him in abundance. He must live to paint and not paint to live.

The greatest challenge in art is in dealing with disappointment.

For the commission to do a great building, I would have sold my soul like Faust. Now I had found my Mephistopheles. He seemed no less engaging than Goethe's.

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.

Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.

Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different

Science is to see what everyone else has seen but think what no one else has thought.

une Net artiste est une artiste pas nette

I remember one woman making paper flowers to sell, with different herbs . . . She made them so fast, and so many . . . that as I watched, her first few zinnias became quickly enough a few hundred, and grew in their happiness to the size of sunflowers. The sunflowers themselves grew to the size of pumpkins, the snapdragons grew ominous, and the rosemary fragrant.

Ser poeta não é uma ambição minha. É a minha maneira de estar sozinho.

Ser poeta no es una ambición mía. Es mi manera de estar solo

Fue un parto», dicen los que no saben o los que creen que el arte real surge del sufrimiento. Para sufrir y pasarlo mal no hay que ser artista; todos más o menos sufren y saben cómo curarse.

In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject the form is always in proportion to the obsession.