Creative Imagination Quotes:

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

- Scott Adams

source: Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.438, Penguin

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Fine Arts, Creativeness

Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.

- Mae Jemison

topic: Women, Creativity, Imagination, Live Free, Dreams And Passion

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

- Dr. Seuss

topic: Love, Life, Success, Nonsensical, Creative People

Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspirational Dream, Believe In Your Dreams

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

- Dr. Seuss

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Inspiring, Creative Imagination, Creative Thinking

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

- Robert Fulghum

source: Robert Fulghum (2010). “It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It”, p.8, Ivy Books

topic: Love, Life, Death, Meaningful Death, Inspirational Bereavement

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

- Vincent Van Gogh

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Inner Voice, Improve Self Esteem

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Dance, Education, Learning To Read, Math Education

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

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Inspirational, Science, Imagination, Innovation Inspiration, Inventions And Inventors

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

- William James

topic: Mean, Creativity, Innovation, Innovation Inspiration, Inspiration And Creativity

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

- Erich Fromm

topic: Letting Go, Spiritual, Courage, Creative People, Inspire Creativity

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

- Joseph Joubert

source: "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.

topic: Inspirational, Education, Learning, Student Learning, Power Of Imagination

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.

- Carl Jung

topic: Creativity, Play, Imagination, Mind Playing, Power Of Imagination

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

- W. Somerset Maugham

topic: Powerful, Creativity, Writing, Power Of Imagination, Creative Imagination

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Leadership, Incomplete Knowledge, Fine Arts

If you can dream it, you can achieve it.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Positive, Dream, Achieve, Managing Change, Great Minds

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.

- Edward de Bono

topic: Creativity, Forever, Innovation, Innovation Inspiration, Inspiration And Creativity

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

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Carpe Diem, Imagination, Possibility, Creative Imagination, Fuse

You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Art, Creativeness, Creative People

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.

- Anna Freud

topic: Inspirational, Witty, Educational, Creative People, Creative Art

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Real, Creativity, Imagination, Innovative Leadership, Power Of Imagination

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Knowledge And Learning, Learning Knowledge

Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.

- Belva Davis

source: Belva Davis, Vicki Haddock (2011). “Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman's Life in Journalism”, p.215, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Dream, Best Success, Managing Change

If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.

- Walt Disney

topic: Inspirational, Mother, Dream, Best Success, Managing Change

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: Graduation, Hope, Carpe Diem, Breaking Rules, Organic Architecture

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.

- Stephen Covey

topic: Change, Encouragement, Freedom, Spiritual Awareness, Freedom Of Choice

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

- Stephen Covey

source: Stephen R. Covey (1999). “Choice: Choosing the Proactive Life You Want to Live”, Franklincovey

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Courage, Positive Thoughts, Imagine That

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

- John Dewey

topic: Change, Creativity, Science, Science Research, Scientific Research

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.

- Charles M. Schwab

topic: Success, Dream, Men, Lateral Thinking, Creative Imagination

The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things-ancient history, nineteenth century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later, or six months, or six years. But he has faith that it will happen.

- Carl Ally

topic: Bad Ass, Years, Ideas, Inspiration And Creativity, Inspiration And Innovation

The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Math, Thinking, Skills, Solved Problems, Creative Imagination

Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.

- George Scialabba

topic: Inspirational, Fun, Imagination, Creative Imagination

Don't let anyone rob you of hope.

- Pope Francis

topic: Creative Imagination, African American Women, Black Women Inspirational

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.

- Rajneesh

topic: Life, Dance, Mean, Creative People, Art And Creativity

The source of genius is imagination alone.

- Eugene Delacroix

topic: Imagination, Genius, Source, Creative Imagination

The most beautiful world is always entered through imagination.

- Helen Keller

topic: Motivational, Beautiful, Imagination, Beautiful World, Creative Imagination

Look at life through the wrong end of the telescope.

- Dr. Seuss

topic: Cells, Imagination, Brain, Wakes You, Dark Fantasy

An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.

- William Bernbach

topic: Positive, Ideas, Dust, Inspirational Graphic Design, Motivational Action

Held in the palms of thousands of disgruntled people over the centuries have been ideas worth millions - if they only had taken the first step and then followed through.

- Robert M. Hayes

source: Robert M. Hayes (1994). “How I Made Millions with Just a Few Simple Ideas!”, Garrett Pub

topic: Taken, Bad Ass, Ideas, Inspiration And Creativity, Disgruntled

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

- Gerald Jampolsky

topic: Inspirational Life, Self, Creative, Inspiration And Creativity, Creative Imagination

The sorcery and charm of imagination, and the power it gives to the individual to transform his world into a new world of order and delight, makes it one of the most treasured of all human capacities.

- Frank Barron

topic: Order, Imagination, Giving, Sorcery, Power Of Imagination

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.

- Antony Jay

source: Antony Jay (1994). “Management and Machiavelli: discovering a new science of management in the timeless principles of statecraft”, Jossey-Bass

topic: Inspirational, Educational, Creative, Questions Asked, Answering Questions

The best use of imagination is creativity. The worst use of imagination is anxiety.

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Creativity, Imagination, Anxiety, Creative Imagination, Imagination Creativity

If you can dream it, you can do it. Your limits are all within yourself.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Positive, Dream, Limits, About Success, Inner Growth

When you are describing, A shape, or sound, or tint; Don't state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things, With a sort of mental squint.

- Lewis Carroll

topic: Creativity, Men, Discovery, Creative Imagination