Immanuel Kant Quotes

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

Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness.

All children have creative power.

Human nature is not amenable to prediction based on the trends or tendencies prevailing at the time. It is amenable to startling creativity of the kind practiced by great artists, directors, writers, musicians, actors, who know how to touch a chord in humans everywhere.

I'm experimental by nature... always exploring my creativity.

You can't teach someone to be imaginative.

Art is about building a new foundation, not just laying something on top of what's already there.

It's important to have an imagination.

That's what I find so special: when you actually imagine something. But really, when it comes to you in a dream, and then you can bring it to life on the screen, it's very powerful.

Creativity requires novelty. Imagination is all about counterfactuals and untested possibilities that don't yet exist.

Creativity or talent, like electricity, is something I don't understand but something I'm able to harness and use.

Mere imagination would indeed be mere trifling; only no imagination is mere .

Creativity is the power to act.

The imagination is one of the forces of nature.

The imagination is not the consolation people pretend. It can even be regarded as the admission of some sort of failure.

The imagination is the power that enables us to perceive the normal in the abnormal, the opposite of chaos in chaos.

Imagination is a powerful force underlying all knowing

Our imagination it is our greatest ally . . . Imagination is a very, very powerful thing. It literally invents the path before you.

Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.

Words in the mind are like colors on the palette of the artist. The more colors we have access to, the easier it is to create a captivating picture on the canvas, and the more practice we give to using those many colors appropriately and uniquely, the more likely we will be to create a masterpiece of self expression.

This is a gift that I have, simple, simple; a foolish extravagant spirit full of forms, figures, shapes, objects, ideas, apprehensions, motions, revolutions; these are begot in the ventricle of memory, nourished in the womb of pia mater, and delivered upon the mellowing of occasion.

He who does not imagine in stronger and better lineaments, and in stronger and better light than his perishing and mortal eye can see, does not imagine at all.

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.

If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all.

Creativity is a lot like looking at the world through a kaleidoscope. You look at a set of elements, the same ones everyone else sees, but then reassemble those floating bits and pieces into an enticing new possibility.