Quotes about Creativity

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

Imagination is vastly more important than intelligence.

The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmounious proportions to produce a creative intelligence.

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

The highest type of intelligence, says Aristotle, manifests itself in an ability to see connections where no one has seen them before, that is, to think analogically.

Original thinking migrates each day in search of nourishment.

Try to resist copying a blueprint from another person's ministry.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Imagination is the language of the soul. Pay attention to your imagination and you will discover all you need to be fulfilled.

Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of madness?

It was a destructive novel of acquired ideas. To finally wake up in a state of creative anguish, to lose oneself in order to find oneself again, to sleep in the arms of a beautiful student whose name one didn't know, to fall back to sleep over a love poem-that was called existence. The harmonics of artistic creation, of fertile sensibility, of anticipated events-history in movement-that was called a privilege.

The city is built To music, therefore never built at all, And therefore built forever.

There'll be creative business leaders but actually, when it comes down to it, they can't do anything unless they're part of a collective. Unless they've got that wealth creator, that engineer and that work person, that skilled person at the bench to fulfil that idea... they're nothing.