Imagination & Creativity Quotes

Remember that your imagination is yours and yours alone. You have the inborn capacity to use it in any way that you choose. No one else is responsible for your imagination. Anything placed in your imagination and held there ultimately becomes your reality.

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Imagination and invention go hand in hand. Remember how lack of resources was never a problem in childhood games? Shift a few pieces of furniture around the living room, and you have yourself a fort.

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'

The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.

Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective.

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.

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

The imagination is man's power over nature.

Imagination decides everything.

I believe that we have the ability to change our lives using our imaginations. Imagination is a muscle - the more you use it, the stronger it gets.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

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

Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.

Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.

My greatest strength as a child, I realize now, was my imagination. While every other kid was reading and writing, I had seven whole hours a day to practice my imagination. When do you get that space in your life, ever?

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

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

As children, our imaginations are vibrant, and our hearts are open. We believe that the bad guy always loses and that the tooth fairy sneaks into our rooms at night to put money under our pillow. Everything amazes us, and we think anything is possible. We continuously experience life with a sense of newness and unbridled curiosity.

Imagination makes us aware of limitless possibilities. How many of us haven't pondered the concept of infinity or imagined the possibility of time travel? In one of her poems, Emily Bronte likens imagination to a constant companion, but I prefer to think of it as a built-in entertainment system.

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.

Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.

Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.

Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.

Imagination comes of not having things.

Creativity requires novelty. Imagination is all about counterfactuals and untested possibilities that don't yet exist.

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.

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

Imagination needs to be fed.

Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your 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.

Imagination rules the world.

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

Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

Creativity is essential to particle physics, cosmology, and to mathematics, and to other fields of science, just as it is to its more widely acknowledged beneficiaries - the arts and humanities.

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

Imagination is the air of mind.

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

We especially need imagination in science.

In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

Art is about imagination. When you look at a picture from Salvador Dali, that's about imagination. When you look at Picasso, that's about imagination. Doing stuff from your heart.

Preschool children are virtuosos of imagination.

There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.

Well, the fact is that one imagination is critically important, and if you have had your imagination stimulated by what is basically a variety of subjects, you are much more amenable to accepting, to understanding and interacting with the realities of the world.

The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.

Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.

All of imagination - everything that we think, we feel, we sense - comes through the human brain. And once we create new patterns in this brain, once we shape the brain in a new way, it never returns to its original shape.

Imagination creates reality.

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

Given free rein, our imagination can get infinite.

The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.