Top 99 Quotes On Creativity And Imagination

Looking for inspiration to spark your creativity and imagination? Look no further than these top 99 quotes from some of the most influential artists, writers, and thinkers of all time.

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” – Albert Einstein
“Creativity takes courage.” – Henri Matisse
“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” – Maya Angelou
“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere.” – Carl Sagan
“Creativity is contagious, pass it on.” – Albert Einstein
“The imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.” – Terence McKenna
“Creativity is intelligence having fun.” – Albert Einstein
“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” – Albert Einstein
“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.” – Albert Einstein
“The creative adult is the child who has survived.” – Ursula K. Le Guin
“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
“Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.” – Dorothy Parker
“The world is but a canvas to our imagination.” – Henry David Thoreau
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science.” – Albert Einstein
“The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.” – Julia Cameron
“Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.” – Lewis Carroll
“Creativity is seeing what everyone else has seen, and thinking what no one else has thought.” – Albert Einstein
“The imagination is not a state, it is the human existence itself.” – William Blake
“Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.” – William Plomer
“Imagination should be used, not to escape reality, but to create it.” – Colin Wilson
“All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” – Pablo Picasso
“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.” – Pablo Picasso
“The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.” – Pablo Picasso
“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct.” – Carl Jung
“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.” – Oscar Wilde
“The imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To be creative means to be in love with life.” – Osho
“The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before.” – Neil Gaiman
“Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being. Creativity requires passion and commitment.” – Rollo May
“Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a reality. Don’t put limitations on yourself. Others will do that for you.” – James Cameron
“The power of imagination makes us infinite.” – John Muir
“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” – Edgar Degas
“The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end.” – Jiddu Krishnamurti
“The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.” – Pablo Picasso
“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while.” – Steve Jobs
“The mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness.” – Percy Bysshe Shelley
“The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.” – Marcel Duchamp
“Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.” – Twyla Tharp
“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” – W.B. Yeats
“The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.” – Julia Cameron
“Creativity is the way I share my soul with the world.” – Brene Brown
“The imagination is not a state, it is the human existence itself.” – William Blake
“I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.” – Vincent van Gogh
“The creative adult is the child who has survived.” – Ursula K. Le Guin
“I invent nothing, I rediscover.” – Auguste Rodin
“There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who, with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.” – Pablo Picasso
“The imagination is a palette of bright colors. You can use it to touch up memories or you can use it to paint dreams.” – Robert Brault
“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.” – Dr. Seuss
“The mere imitation of nature is not art.” – William Morris
“The world is but a canvas to our imagination.” – Henry David Thoreau
“To be an artist is to believe in life.” – Henry Moore
“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” – Edgar Degas
“The imagination is a weapon. Those who don’t use it die first.” – Philip K. Dick
“Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.” – Bill Moyers
“The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible.” – Toni Cade Bambara
“The artist’s job is to be a witness to his time in history.” – Robert Rauschenberg
“The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies.” – Neil Gaiman
“The creative process is not like a situation where you get struck by a single lightning bolt. You have ongoing discoveries, and there’s ongoing creative revelations. Yes, it’s really helpful to be marching toward a specific destination, but, along the way, you must allow yourself room for your ideas to blossom, take root, and grow.” – Carlton Cuse
“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct.” – Carl Jung
“Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.” – Leo Tolstoy
“Art is the highest form of hope.” – Gerhard Richter
“Art is not a thing; it is a way.” – Elbert Hubbard
“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.” – Pablo Picasso
“Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” – Scott Adams
“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.” – Albert Einstein
“The 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
“Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.” – Twyla Tharp
“Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.” – Lewis Carroll
“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.” – Pablo Picasso
“The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.” – Pablo Picasso
“Every child is an artist.

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