Fernando Pessoa Quotes

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.

I'm not such a fan of imagination. If you're alive to details, they oftentimes suggest a richer or deeper imaginative line than you would have imagined.

Creativity is a scavenger hunt. It's your obligation to pay attention to clues, to the thing that gives you that little tweak.

Intelligence is composed mostly of imagination, insight, things that have nothing to do with reason.

It is the function of creative man to perceive and to connect the seemingly unconnected.

When I think of vision, I have in mind the ability to see above and beyond the majority.

The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.

Vision is the true creative rhythm.

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

The fact is that creativity is everywhere. It's just about the way that you look at things.

To do the impossible, you must be able to see the invisible.

Everything inspires me; sometimes I think I see things others don’t.

All you need is your own imagination. So use it that's what it's for.

See what no one else sees. See what everyone chooses not to see... out of fear, conformity or laziness. See the whole world anew each day!

There is something more important than logic: imagination

People frequently believe the creative life is grounded in fantasy. The more difficult truth is that creativity is grounded in reality, in the particular, the focused, the well observed or specifically imagined.

There is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap.

This is the test and triumph of originality, not to show us what has never been, and what we may therefore very easily never have dreamt of, but to point out to us what is before our eyes and under our feet, though we have had no suspicion of its existence, for want of sufficient strength of intuition, of determined grasp of mind to seize and retain it.

Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn't work.

Imagination is a place where all the important answers live.

Creativity is the ability to see and to respond.

Genius is only a superior power of seeing.

The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.

I think the artistry is in having an insight into what one sees around them. Generally putting things together in a way no one else has before and finding a way to express that to other people who don't have that insight.