Imaginative Exploration Quotes

Imagination is the beginning of creation.

I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.

Creativity is the mystery of freedom.

The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas.

Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.

Imagination is the beginning of reality.

If I begin writing a poem that means I'm intrigued in some way by whatever it's about and that if I'm not trying to find something new and pushing the envelope in the poem I can't expect my reader to be particularly excited about it either.

Creativity is a religion. When you get into it, you will find your life becomes more spiritual.

There is no oil so thick as to destroy the imagination.

The superiority of the dreamer is that dreaming is much more practical than living, and that the dreamer extracts from life a much vaster and varied pleasure than the action man. In better and more direct words, the dreamer is the real action man.

No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination.

Without playing with fantasy, no creative work has yet come into being.

Imagination is the source of all human achievement.

Creative individuals tend to be smart, yet also naive at the same time... Creative individuals have a combination of playfulness and discipline, or responsibility and irresponsibility.

Original thinking migrates each day in search of nourishment.

Creativity involves putting your imagination to work. In a sense, creativity is applied imagination.

We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing.

The scientist needs an artistically creative imagination.

The reverie we intend to study is poetic reverie. This is a reverie which poetry puts on the right track, the track an expanding consciousness follows. This reverie is written, or, at least, promises to be written. It is already facing the great universe of the blank page. Then images begin to compose and fall into place.

I believe that fantasy in the meaning of imagination is very important. We shouldn't stick too close to everyday reality but give room to the reality of the heart, of the mind, and of the imagination.

Man's most valuable faculty is his imagination.

With imagination, you can put something where nothing was.

Just as there is no substitute for original works of art, there is no substitute for the world of direct sensual experience.

When will the arbitrary be granted the place it deserves in the formation of works and ideas?

Through imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being, which is the proper world for reverie.