Creativity Quotes

"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."

"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."

"No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it."

"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions."

"It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength."

"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."

"The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing."

"What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat."

"My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others' negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts."

"I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals."

"When I die, I shall soar with angels, and when I die to the angels, what I shall become you cannot imagine."

"Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life."

"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative."

"Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative."

"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist."

"Owing to some peculiarity in my nervous system, I have perception of some things, which no one else has; or at least very few, if any... I can throw rays from every quarter of the universe into one vast focus."

"My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth."

"Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it."

"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."

"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see."

"When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator."

"Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well."

"The whole is more than the sum of its parts."

"Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference."

"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."

"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not."

"The earth laughs in flowers."

"All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen."

"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn."

"Every artist was first an amateur."