Imagination And Creativity Quotes:

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

- Albert Einstein

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

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

- Erich Fromm

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

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

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Teacher, Young Entrepreneurs, Life Wisdom

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Love, Life, God, Intelligence Services, Knowledge And Ignorance

Often we use the word problem only because we have not learned that imagination and creativity can handle the situation.

- Wayne Dyer

topic: Creativity, Imagination, Use, Imagination And Creativity

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

- Albert Einstein

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

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 world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

topic: Art, Philosophical, Reality, Fine Arts, Inspirational Art

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

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

- Michelangelo

topic: Life, Art, Angel, Fine Arts, Inspirational Art

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

- Maya Angelou

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

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

- Theodore Levitt

topic: Change, Creativity, Thinking, Innovation And Business, Innovation Inspiration

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

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

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

- Mark Twain

topic: Life, Inspiring, Meaningful, Imagine That, Inspirational Design

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.87, BookBaby

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Fine Arts, Inspiration And Art

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Motivational, Spiritual, Art, Creative People, Inspiration And Creativity

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

If you can dream it, you can achieve it.

- Zig Ziglar

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

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.

- John Maynard Keynes

source: "The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money". Book by John Maynard Keynes (Preface), 1936.

topic: Education, Lying, Escaping, Innovation Inspiration, Inspiration And Creativity

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Witty, Creativity, Science, Creative People, Funny Sarcastic

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

- Carl Sagan

topic: Life, Art, Motivation, Creative People, Two Worlds

Everything you can imagine is real.

- Pablo Picasso

topic: Inspirational, Meaningful, Art, Inspiration And Creativity, Imagine That

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Wisdom, Gifts Of The Spirit, Spiritual Change

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.

- Rita Mae Brown

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Trust, Trust Your Instincts, Inspire Creativity

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

- Muhammad Ali

source: Twitter post from Dec 05, 2010

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Sports, Cassius, Motivational Training

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

While the world of reality has its limits, the world of your imagination is without boundaries

- Wayne Dyer

source: Dr. Wayne W. Dyer (2016). “Being in Balance: 9 Principles for Creating Habits to Match Your Desires”, p.23, Hay House, Inc

topic: Inspirational, Art, Reality, Inspirational Artist, Boundless

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

- Albert Einstein

topic: Love, Life, Relationship, Secret Life, Creativeness

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

- Emily Dickinson

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

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

- William James

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

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Confidence, Being Yourself, Fear, Inspire Creativity, Love Yourself More

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Life Is Simple, Courage To Change

Life is about trying things to see if they work.

- Ray Bradbury

topic: Creativity, Imagination, Creative, Inspiration And Creativity, Creative Work

Children see magic because they look for it.

- Christopher Moore

source: Christopher Moore (2009). “Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal”, p.10, Harper Collins

topic: Life, Children, Magic, Children Education, Children Imagination

The most beautiful world is always entered through imagination.

- Helen Keller

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

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimagininative.

- Oscar Wilde

source: Quoted in Hesketh Pearson, Oscar Wilde: His Life and Wit (1946)

topic: Imagination Creativity, Consistency, Oscars, Imagination And Creativity

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 imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Book, Reading, Writing, Critical Spirit, Imagination And Creativity

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.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Real, Science, Skills, Solved Problems, Creative Problem Solving

Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self.

- Erich Fromm

topic: Creativity, Acceptance, Self, Inspiration And Creativity, Inspire Creativity

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

- Thomas A. Edison

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

The great successful men of the world have used their imagination. They think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - steadily building.

- Robert Collier

topic: Inspirational, Life, Success, Successful Man, Thinking Ahead

The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering.

- Brenda Ueland

source: Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

topic: Happiness, Long, Imagination, Imagination And Creativity

Invention strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come from nothing.

- Joshua Reynolds

source: sir Joshua Reynolds (1853). “Discourses on the Fine Arts Delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy”, p.7

topic: Memories, Creativity, Littles, Inventing Things, Inventions And Inventors

When all think alike, then no one is thinking

- Walter Lippmann

topic: Funny Inspirational, Thinking, Innovative Leadership, Nonconformity, Thinking Alike

Look at life through the wrong end of the telescope.

- Dr. Seuss

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

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

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Giving, Imagination, Soul, One With Nature, Imagination And Creativity

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

- Howard Aiken

topic: Life And Love, Business, Congratulations, Daily Work, Innovation And Business