Creativity Quotes

"I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards."

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination."

"True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist."

"Imagination without knowledge may create beautiful things, knowledge without imagination can create only perfect ones."

"I thought of that while riding my bicycle."

"Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world."

"To stimulate creativity one must develop childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition."

"Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought."

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

"To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science."