Quotes on Imagination Creativity

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

The autobiographical self has prompted extended memory, reasoning, imagination, creativity and language. And out of that came the instruments of culture - religions, justice, trade, the arts, science, technology.

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity.

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

The possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

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

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.