R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

Creativity is the art of the impossible

Every day, through engagement in the arts, our children learn to open their imagination, to dream just a little bigger and to strive every day to reach those dreams.

I really believe that a writer is someone who has trained their mind to misbehave.

I'd like to think I inspire young people to be creative.

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

It's fun because you can escape and learn about what other people's minds have created. It inspires you to think maybe you could come up with a creature yourself. I like that.

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

All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.

Originality is only variation.

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

The Imaginative Child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization

I believe that children long for form just as grownups do, and that it releases rather than cramps creative energy.

The child and the great artist -- these alone receive the sensation fresh as it was at the beginning of the world.

I love being part of a group who tells stories, whether it be in the theater or in cinema, and I love creating imaginary worlds rather as children do, but I never had a burning desire to act, but it just sort of suited me.

The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.

Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive; but the latter is active and creative. Children, the weak minded, and the timid are full of fancy. Men and women of intellect, of great intellect, are alone possessed of great imagination.

Very few people are accepted as creative: A few painters, a few poets - one in a million. This is foolish! Every human being is a born creator. Watch children and you will see: all children are creative. By and by, we destroy their creativity.

As a child I did a lot of imaginary bits, you know. It depends on the individual, I enjoyed then knocking the nail in, I enjoy knocking nails in walls to hang pictures up, but I also enjoy thinking 'I'm gonna do that' but I actually won't do it, I enjoy imagining doing things just as much.

All men are creative but few are artists.

One should never turn one's back on a vivid imagination.

A child's attitude toward everything is an artist's attitude.

The imagination is too often regarded merely as an indefinite, untraceable, indescribable something that does nothing but create fiction.

Creativity...involves the power to originate, to break away from the existing ways of looking at things, to move freely in the realm of the imagination, to create and recreate worlds fully in one's mind-while supervising all this with a critical inner eye.

In literature, you know only what you imagine