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Creativity Quotes by Albert Einstein
- To stimulate creativity one must develop childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition.
- The legs are the wheels of creativity.
- A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way, but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.
- The music of Mozart is of such purity and beauty that one feels he merely found it - that it has always existed as part…
- Creativity is seeing what others see and thinking what no one else has ever thought.
- Problems cannot be solved by thinking within the framework in which the problems were created.
- But the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed.
- Creativity is Inspiration having fun
- Creativity is one of those hypnotic words which are prone to cast a spell upon our understanding and dissolve our thinking into haze.
- The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
- Imagination is more important than knowledge.
- Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
- Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
- True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
- Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
- The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
- The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
- You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.
- I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
- To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
More Creativity Quotes
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
- Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. — Nnamdi Azikiwe
- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov
- Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. — Lauren Bacall
- A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. — Francis Bacon
- You don't take a photograph, you make it. — Ansel Adams
- When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. — Ansel Adams