Quotes on Creative Mind

Problems are challenges to creative minds. Without problems, there would be little reason to think at all.

I set out to show that there exists single creative activity,which is displayed alike in the arts and in the sciences.It is wrong to think of science as a mechanical record of facts, and it is wrong to think of the arts as remote and private fancies. What makes each human, what makes them universal, is the stamp of the creative mind.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations is really an uncreative mind.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

The right to agree with others is not a problem in any society; it is the right to disagree that is crucial. It is the institution of private property that protects and implements the right to disagree - and thus keeps the road open to man's most valuable attribute: the creative mind.

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few.

The mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned.

In detachment lies the wisdom of uncertainty...in the wisdom of uncertainty lies the freedom from our past, from the known, which is the prison of past conditioning. And in our willingness to step into the unknown, the field of all possibilities, we surrender ourselves to the creative mind that orchestrates the dance of the universe.

Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.

I always wanted to show the world that art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

You can think about red. You can think about pink. You can think up a horse. Oh, the THINKS you can think!

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.