Imagination and Creativity

The man who has no imagination has no wings.
Muhammad Ali

Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your initiation. You can't get there by bus, only by hard work, risking, and not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
Alan Alda, actor

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

True creativity often starts where language ends.
Arthur Koestler (1905-1983), writer

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
Herman Melville (1819-1891), writer

There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you'll be free if you truly wish to be.
"Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory"

All human beings are born with the same creative potential. Most people squander theirs away on a million superfluous things. I expend mine on one thing and one thing only: my art.
Pablo Picasso

If you live your life out of memory, you live out of your history. That's what once was. If you live life out of your imagination, you live out of your potential. That's what can be.

Creativity is not a spectator sport.

What we can easily see is only a small percentage of what is possible. Imagination is having the vision to see what is just below the surface; to picture that which is essential, but invisible to the eye.

The imagination equips us to see a reality we have yet to create.

If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.
e.e. cummings

I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
Albert Einstein

The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.
W. Somerset Maugham

Downtime is where we become ourselves, looking into the middle distance, kicking at the curb, lying on the grass or sitting on the stoop and staring at the tedious blue of the summer sky. I don't believe you can write poetry, or compose music, or become an actor without downtime, and plenty of it, a hiatus that passes for boredom but is really the quiet moving of the wheels inside that fuel creativity.
Anna Quindlen, Pulitzer prize-winning author

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.
Ellen Key (1849-1926), writer