The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive.
The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.
Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
You can think about red. You can think about pink. You can think up a horse. Oh, the THINKS you can think!
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.
The best revenge is the massive success.
Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
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