Creative Imagination Quotes

Creative freedom is determined by how we behold the world. Any one of us can make new things with our perceptions that serve as doorways to the creative imagination. No one is excluded.

Prayer is the highest form, the supreme act of the Creative Imagination. ... For prayer is not a request for something: it is the expression of a mode of being, a means of existing and of causing to exist, ... The organ of Prayer is the heart, the psychospiritual organ, with its concentration of energy, its himma. ... Prayer is a "creator" of vision, ... .

I believed that I was approaching the end of my days without having tasted to the full any of the pleasures for which my heart thirsted...without having ever tasted that passion which, through lack of an object, was always suppressed. ...The impossibility of attaining the real persons precipitated me into the land of chimeras; and seeing nothing that existed worthy of my exalted feelings, I fostered them in an ideal world which my creative imagination soon peopled with beings after my own heart.

Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader.

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

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

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

[Obama is ] creative imagination which coupled with brilliance equals wisdom . . . [He is] the man for this time.

Fantasy works inwards upon its author, blurring the boundary between the visioned and the actual, and associating itself ever moreclosely with the Ego, so that the child who has fantasied himself a murderer ends by becoming a Loeb or a Leopold. The creative Imagination works outwards, steadily increasing the gap between the visioned and the actual, till this becomes the great gulf fixed between art and nature. Few writers of crime-stories become murderers--if any do, it is not the result of identifying themselves with their murderous heroes.

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

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge.

Dreams are more powerful than facts.

The most beautiful world is always entered through imagination.

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

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

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

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

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

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.

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

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.

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

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

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty.

Life is about trying things to see if they work.

The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Don't let anyone rob you of hope.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

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

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

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

Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to the page and be a co-author with the writer, because the story is just squiggles on the page unless you have a reader.

If you can dream it, you can make it so.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.