Creativity

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.

Creativity is one of those hypnotic words which are prone to cast a spell upon our understanding and dissolve our thinking into haze.

Creativity is seeing what others see and thinking what no one else has ever thought.

Creativity is the residue of time wasted.

Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.

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

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

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

In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy.

It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.

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

One should never impose one’s views on a problem; one should rather study it, and in time a solution will reveal itself.

Problems cannot be solved by thinking within the framework in which the problems were created.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

The music of Mozart is of such purity and beauty that one feels he merely found it - that it has always existed as part of the inner beauty of the universe waiting to be revealed.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

The theoretical idea … does not arise apart from and independent of experience; nor can it be derived from experience by a purely logical procedure. It is produced by a creative act. Once a theoretical idea has been acquired, one does well to hold fast to it until it leads to an untenable conclusion.

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

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