Quotes on Creativity

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul.

Solitude is an unavoidable part of creativity. Self-reliance is a happy by-product.

Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

It's how creativity works. Especially in humans. For every good idea, ten thousand idiotic ones must first be posed, sifted, tried out, and discarded. A mind that's afraid to toy with the ridiculous will never come up with the brilliantly original.

My greatest joy comes from creativity: from feeling that I have been able to identify a certain aspect of human nature and crystallise a phenomenon in words.

Creativity is that marvelous capacity to grasp mutually distinct realities and draw a spark from their juxtaposition.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

Creativity needs a bit of untidiness. Make everything too neat and there is no room for experiment.

By the time a player becomes a Grandmaster, almost all of his training time is dedicated to work on this first phase. The opening is the only phase that holds out the potential for true creativity and doing something entirely new.

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

The art and science of memory is about developing the capacity to quickly create images that link disparate ideas. Creativity is the ability to form similar connections between disparate images and to create something new and hurl it into the future so it becomes a poem, or a building, or a dance, or a novel. Creativity is, in a sense, future memory.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

I have lived on a razors edge. So what if you fall off. I'd rather be doing something I wanted to do. I'd walk it again.

In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage: our minds. Through creativity and innovation, we transformed barren deserts into flourishing fields and pioneered new frontiers in science and technology.

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.

Without great solitude no serious work is possible.

Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.