Top 100 Creativity Imagination Quotes
#1. Some might think that the creativity, imagination, and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity.
Vladimir Nabokov
#2. The Grateful Dead, they're my best friends. Their message of hope, peace, love, teamwork, creativity, imagination, celebration, the dance, the vision, the purpose, the passion all of the things I believe in makes me the luckiest Deadhead in the world.
Bill Walton
#3. Creativity, imagination and talent can only get you so far -- you still need luck and money -- And that's why they call it Show Business and not Show Art
Wayne J. Keeley
#4. The greatest things in life - truth, creativity, imagination, love, kindness, compassion -are already inside us, and they're all free.
Yanni
#5. I never knew the wonders of nature, until I began to walk with nature.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#6. I was the baby of the family, but I was never babied, and that allowed me to take whatever artistic temperament I had and apply learned discipline. I was taught how to work. I think that's everything. Creativity and imagination alone are not going to get you there.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#7. What a Christian portrays in his art is the totality of life. Art is not to be a vehicle for self-conscious evangelism. Christians ought not to be threatened by fantasy and imagination. The Christian is the really free man. He is free to have imagination.
Francis A. Schaeffer
#8. The battle for our culture must be waged at the level of the imagination.
Eric Metaxas
#9. but it can't tell you where you ought to go, unless where you ought to go is a continuation of where you were going in the past. Creativity, originality, inventiveness, intuition, imagination - "unstuckness," in other words - are completely outside its domain. We
Robert M. Pirsig
#10. Some evidence suggests the left-handers are more likely to have problems with such left-hemisphere functions as reading, writing, speaking and arithmetic; and to be more adept at such right -hemisphere functions as imagination, pattern recognition and general creativity.
Carl Sagan
#12. That's creativity in a nutshell. A messy tug-of-war with imagination to erase that feeling that nothing really matters anyway.
Zoe Whittall
#13. The inhibitor of creativity isn't potential it's fear. We worry about saying the wrong thing or looking foolish so we govern our imagination.
Josh Linkner
#14. No matter how hard they try, they'll never create anything so perfectly beautiful as what plays out in my own imagination.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#15. Odd, Tom thought, that some girls meant sadness and death. Some girls looked like sunlight, creativity, joy, but they really meant death, and not even because the girls were enticing their victims, in fact one might blame the boys for being deceived by - nothing at all, simply imagination.
Patricia Highsmith
#16. Imagination is the hood ornament on your car of creativity.
Gary Busey
#17. Learn to visualize for inspiring creativity, and make imagination rolling into reality.
Pearl Zhu
#18. Reality is only for people with no imagination.
Gavin Freeman
#19. 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.
Antonio Damasio
#20. Take imagination breaks ... Relaxed attention is one of the most important states of mind for creativity, and sometimes it has to be learned.
Nita Leland
#22. A narrow hallway is all that separates rational from irrational, creativity from insanity, and intelligence from stupidity.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#23. It is said that you can't write without a reader. The opposite holds true as well; you can't read without a writer. But if as a single, creative person you are one in the same, then, well ... problem solved! Great writing is born from that which we personally long to read.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#24. The epicenter of creativity and imagination should be the Church, reflecting the character and glory of God.
Erwin McManus
#25. Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#27. Problem-insight precedes solution insight. Someone has to recognise a problem before they start to solve the problem ...
Max McKeown
#28. Normal means lack of imagination and creativity.
Jean Dubuffet
#29. Companies like Google and Facebook may offer jobs allowing or requiring imagination and creativity, but the whole of Silicon Valley accounts for only 3 percent of national income and a smaller percentage of national employment.
Edmund Phelps
#30. Sex, creativity, music, art, family, love, beauty, and creative imagination are all part of the spiritual path in the tantric traditions. So I think that for today that has a lot to say to us about not dividing ourselves from ourselves.
Surya Das
#31. The collective sensation is one's perspective, experience, memory, imagination, and perception.
Pearl Zhu
#32. The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.
Frank Barron
#33. Lies can open up the doors to imagination.
Lionel Suggs
#34. Imagination is the faculty of the mind that God has given us to make the communication of his beauty beautiful.
John Piper
#36. Creative person's spirit and soul dance with passion and imagination.
Pearl Zhu
#37. Creativity sparks originality which then manifests itself into what we call evolution. To depreciate imagination is to depreciate life.
Alecia Stone
#38. To a clear eye the smallest fact is a window through which the infinite may be seen.
Thomas Henry Huxley
#39. If you're a writer, the problem is that, when you try to call a halt to thinking about your novel-in-progress, your imagination still keeps going; you can't shut it off.
John Irving
#40. Creativity is a muscle, and when we flex the muscle of our imagination, we find inspiration.
Inbar Shahar
#41. Many scientists think that philosophy has no place, so for me it's a sad time because the role of reflection, contemplation, meditation, self inquiry, insight, intuition, imagination, creativity, free will, is in a way not given any importance, which is the domain of philosophers.
Deepak Chopra
#42. Novel writing is World Building & Word Weaving (Neil Postman's terms).
J.M. Varner
#43. Ha-ha!' the fox laughed. '*Just* stories, you say, as if stories mean nothing? Stories are the stuff that sticks the world together. Stories are the mud from which we're all made. The power to imagine stories is the power to remake the world as we dream it.
C. Alexander London
#45. Vision is not fiction; fiction could be a pure imagination; vision is to zoom into the future as if it were closer.
Pearl Zhu
#48. Nonfiction is both easier and harder to write than fiction. It's easier because the facts are already laid out before you, and there is already a narrative arc. What makes it harder is that you are not free to use your imagination and creativity to fill in any missing gaps within the story.
Amy Bloom
#49. People won't see Imagination in something that doesn't relate to their experience because of their own mental limitations. I want people to escape the expected and ordinary, to escape the regular expectations of a story, and truly step into a different world of literature.
Lionel Suggs
#50. For [Richard] Feynman, the essence of the scientific imagination was a powerful and almost painful rule. What scientists create must match reality. It must match what is already known. Scientific creativity is imagination in a straitjacket.
James Gleick
#51. Imagination should be used, not to escape reality but to create it.
Colin Wilson
#52. As a writer, I see the saga of your life in a single glimpse. It may be inaccurate, but my version doesn't lack for creativity.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#53. Dreamers do not believe in power, they believe in imagination the source of creativity.
Euginia Herlihy
#54. Literature is like a subtle concoction of laboriously collected peripherals called words, intellect,thoughts,imagination,creativity and aestheticism brewed together to form a resplendent work of art.
Shilpa Sandesh
#55. If there are no new ideas, there is no innovation. And if there is no creativity, there are no new ideas.
Max McKeown
#57. Creativity can be defined as an original act of imagination that brings something into existence. It is a desire and innate drive to make new connections between things, to give form, and to transform.
Shaun McNiff
#58. People talk
they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it.
Piers Anthony
#59. I know kids who say they have nothing to do and then go plop themselves down in front of the television to watch a movie or play Nintendo or Xbox. I think there is nothing better for killing creativity and imagination.
Alexandra Adornetto
#60. Let your creative and imaginative mind run freely; it will take you places you never dreamed of and provide breakthroughs that others once thought were impossible.
Idowu Koyenikan
#61. Creativity grows out of two things: curiosity & imagination.
Benny Goodman
#62. The complete recipe for imagination is absolute boredom.
Criss Jami
#63. For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.
Jean Dubuffet
#67. We all want to have a place where we can dream and escape anything that wraps steel bands around our imagination and creativity.
Bob Goff
#68. Life when one first arrives is a continual mortification as one's romantic illusions are successively shattered and the musical treasure-house of one's imagination crumbles before the hopelessness of the reality. Every day fresh experiences bring fresh disappointments.
Hector Berlioz
#70. Inspiring passion in children for books, and the world of imagination and creativity fuelled by them, is a fundamental reason for why the Children's Laureate post exists.
Anthony Browne
#71. I do think that there is a profound reservoir of creativity and imagination in everyone I've ever met, and sometimes if someone is persistent and perversely obstinate enough to persevere, then they want to be helped. There is a way to help them.
Philip Schultz
#72. A genius masters the art of observation, and unites with the source of imagination to create advancements in the cause for human evolution.
T.F. Hodge
#74. Artistic creativity is a whirlpool of imagination that swirls in the depths of the mind.
Robert Toth
#75. Art is the extended arm of your imagination, The feast of inspiration for your muse. Art isn't just creativity, its a way of life.
Sarah Curran
#76. Cooking with kids is not just about ingredients, recipes, and cooking. It's about harnessing imagination, empowerment, and creativity.
Guy Fieri
#77. Virtual worlds are places of imagination that encompass practices of play, performance, creativity and ritual.
Tom Boellstorff
#78. The mind is a universe, and it has the power to completely create any possibility.
Lionel Suggs
#79. In the absence of sleep, my restless nights have been fueled by my overactive imagination, weaving waking dreams onto the canvas of conception. Filling my head with lots of ideas waiting to be born into reality. I am eager to return to my beautiful mistress, Creation!
Jaeda DeWalt
#80. Doors are for people with no imagination.
Derek Landy
#81. It is through imagination that we transcend understanding and travel into the world of possibilities.
Danielle Pierre
#82. We see them most when we are o nnthe outside looking in
Jonah Lehrer
#83. Creativity ... involves the power to originate, to break away from the existing ways of looking at things, to move freely in the realm of the imagination, to create and recreate worlds fully in one's mind-while supervising all this with a critical inner eye.
Oliver Sacks
#84. Every man's world picture is and always remains a construct of his mind and cannot be proved to have any other existence.
Erwin Schrodinger
#85. The last adventure left on this planet is creativity because we've been everywhere. There's not much left to explore. But there's a lot of exploration left in the human imagination.
Wim Wenders
#86. The psychology of individual creativity is about at least three different things. First, creativity is about thinking differently. Second, creativity is about feeling differently. Third, creativity is about focusing, or committing, differently.
Max McKeown
#87. Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability to feel empathy for people we've never met, living lives we couldn't possibly experience for ourselves, because the book puts us inside the character's skin.
Ann Patchett
#89. There are people who can never go to Fantastica," said Mr. Coreander, "and others who can, but who stay there forever. And there are just a few who fo to fantastica and come back. Like you. And they make both world well again.
Michael Ende
#90. We can build anything in our imagination that's where all creation begins in your life
Bob Proctor
#91. A good artist does not just make imaginations beautiful to the mind, but also more pleasant to the eye with a superb visible touch of excellence.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#92. Each of us has an Aladdin's Lamp which psychologists call creative imagination.
Alex Faickney Osborn
#93. The true parents of creativity are curiosity and necessity.
Max McKeown
#94. A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.
Wilhelm Raabe
#95. Successful people engage that creative part of their minds and ask, "Well, I wonder how else I can look at this problem? I wonder how else I could deal with this decision? I wonder what other possibilities I have there?"
Jim Rohn
#96. Mel Alexenberg offers a scintillating experiment in creativity. His work is an invitation to deepen your spiritual sensibilities as you extend your imagination.
Jan Phillips
#97. I settle into my imagination so that I might be someone when the real world tells me I'm no one.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#98. These powers of imagination and creativity are among the few things that set us apart from the rest of life on Earth. But they make all the difference.
Ken Robinson
#99. Without imagination, there would be no creativity. Without creativity, there would be nothing.
Aneta Cruz
#100. One of the biggest mistakes people make is to think that what you need to write a novel is imagination, creativity and a facility with words. Yes, you need all those things, but a novel is a highly complex organism that needs to be dealt with in quite a logical manner.
Kate Forsyth
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