Quotes on Imagination/Creativity

Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man. Nothing was ever created by two men…the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man.

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

"The ability to speak does not make you intelligent."

"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."


-- Anatole France

"An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself."

-Charles Dickens

'Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We are prisoners of ideas."

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists."

-Charles Dickens

"Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited while imagination embraces the entire world."

-Albert Einstein

Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in the air - explode softly - and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air. Floating down to earth - boxes of Crayolas. And we wouldn't go cheap, either - not little boxes of eight. Boxes of sixty-four, with the sharpener built right in. With silver and gold and copper, magenta and peach and lime, amber and umber and all the rest. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination.