Creativity Quotes

"Writing is thinking on paper."

- William Zinsser

"Give weather reports. It helps the reality of a scene if foghorns are blowing or kites are in the sky on a windy afternoon or the day’s so hot wallpaper is peeling off the walls."

- Sid Fleischman

"Thought is the fountain of speech."

- Chrysippus

"The black holes of nature are the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe: the only elements in their construction are our concepts of space and time."

- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

"Every brilliant experiment, like every great work of art, starts with an act of imagination."

- Jonah Lehrer

"Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought."

- Albert Szent-Györgyi

"If you want to have good ideas, you must have many ideas."

- Linus Pauling

"All sorts of things can happen when you’re open to new ideas and playing around with things."

- Stephanie Kwolek

"In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite."

- Paul Dirac

"In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe."

- Carl Sagan

"A true adventure begins when imagination collides with reality."

- Karel Capek

"Those [scientists] who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas."

- Max Planck

"One has to do something new in order to be able to see something new."

- Lichtenberg

"Art enchants, science enlightens."

- Freeman Dyson

"The process of creation of the new depends essentially on the transgression of categorization."

- Roald Hoffmann

"I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity."

- Isidor Isaac Rabi

"Have lots of ideas and throw away the bad ones."

- Linus Pauling

"Staring at the blank page before you, open up the dirty window. Let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find."

- Natasha Bedingfield

"You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."

- Maya Angelou

"That is a canvas sheet—the most versatile object known to man. It can be used to make tents, backpacks, shoes, stretchers, sails, tarpaulins, and I suppose, in the most dire of circumstances, it can be a surface on which to make art."

- Ron Swanson

"There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion."

- Edgar Allan Poe

"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary..."

- Edgar Allan Poe

"I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat."

- Edgar Allan Poe

"It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic."

- Edgar Allan Poe

"With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind."

- Edgar Allan Poe

"Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem."

- Edgar Allan Poe

"It was a freak of fancy in my friend… to be enamored of the night for her own sake; and into this bizarrerie, as into all his others, I quietly fell; giving myself up to his wild whims with a perfect abandon."

- Edgar Allan Poe

"It's only right that you should play the way you feel it."

"Paint your own masterpiece with every touch."

- Unknown

"Every pass is a chance to create something magical."

- Unknown