Quotes on Imagination Creativity

It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination

Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.

Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.

The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

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.

Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

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