Quotes about Creativity

While knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create.

After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well. Remark

The ability to portray people in still life and in motion requires the highest measure of intuition and talent.

The creative principle [of science] resides in mathematics.

We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them

I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example...

Not quite. I'm thinking of a queer feeling I sometimes get, a feel that I've got something important to say and the power to say it—only I don't know what it is, and I can't make any use of the power.

You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art.

A funny little literary article in the hand is worth at least three Critiques of Pure Reason in the bush.

It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

I'm thinking of a queer feeling I sometimes get, a feeling that I've got something to say and the power to say it -- only I don't know what it is, and I can't make use of the power. If there was some different way of writing...Or else something else to write about.

Did you ever feel, as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it a chance to come out? Some sort of extra power that you aren't using—you know, like all the water that goes down the falls instead of through the turbines?