4,594 Quotes About Creativity

Maps gave them control over their surroundings, for the first time ever. It showed how to get from one place to another. It sounds simple now, but a thousand years ago it would have been an incredible feat of imagination and imagery. All maps are drawn as though looking down. From a bird's point of view. From their god's point of view. Imagine being the first person to think of that. To be able to wrap their minds around a perspective they'd never seen. And then draw it.

When you stretch your mind, you stretch the world around you.

Vision without execution is hallucination. .. Skill without imagination is barren. Leonardo [da Vinci] knew how to marry observation and imagination, which made him history’s consummate innovator.

Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn’t grow out of either of our species’ two basic instincts: survival and reproduction.

While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.

Creativity takes Imagination, Imagination takes Courage, Courage takes Curiosity, and Curiosity leads to Success.

She was in awe of all his work. 'How do you do it?" she asked.He smiled and said, 'By loving you.

Isn't violence a failure of the imagination, after all? And that failure, isn't it stupidity?

Admittedly, art is somewhat like spit. It does not repulse or even worry is while it is still inside of us, but once it exits our body, it becomes disgusting.