LeRoy Neiman Quotes

Many creative people are finding that creativity doesn't grow in abundance, it grows from scarcity - the more Lego bricks you have doesn't mean you're going to be more creative; you can be very creative with very few Lego bricks.

Most organizations do not value imagination, do not encourage it, do not reward it. In many cases, they don't even think about it. But if you're not thinking about imagination, I guarantee you're not going to have meaningful innovation.

The imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.

We are all innovators, we all like to use our imagination, which is our greatest tool.

Creativity is a mansion. If you're empty in one room, all you have to do is go out into the hallway and enter another room that's full.

It's important to have an imagination.

I like trying to be creative.

Geniuses don't have better ideas than the rest of us. They just have more of them.

Constraint inspires creativity

Lack of money always means a surplus of creativity, in the best case.

Part of being creative is not being super-duper focused.

When you have a creative mind it doesn't stop going.

Humans are very imaginative animals.

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.

Imagination decides everything.

The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.

When you have one idea per year, it's already a miracle!

You can't suppress creativity, you can't suppress innovation.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.

The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.

We especially need imagination in science.

I mean, the most important thing to me is imagination.