Amitava Kumar Quotes

Imagination comes of not having things.

Imagination decides everything.

Imagination is an instrument of survival.

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

Possessing a healthy imagination is a necessary ingredient for creativity.

The imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.

It's important to have an imagination.

I've always had a slightly overactive imagination.

I just want to stay creative, share my ideas and see where it all leads.

The key to this collaboration - which we undertook after much deliberation - was to stretch creatively. New characters, new locales, new form (the novella).

What I love about the creative process, and this may sound naive, but it is this idea that one day there is no idea, and no solution, but the next day there is an idea. I find that incredibly exciting and conceptually actually remarkable.

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.

The seed of an idea laying dormant in an old sketchbook is fed the missing ingredient from a new experience. Trying to share some of these experiences, some of the wonders, is one of the reasons why I do books.

I just find my creativity manifesting a bunch of different ways.

If you're not a daydreamer, you haven't got any imagination.

If you come into any creative project without questions, you're gonna bore yourself, and it'll show on the page.

I think when you're being creative, you still attach it to reality somehow.

You know, when you look carefully at stuff that you deal with everyday, applying a little creativity to it and thinking outside the box, it's amazing what you can do.

The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.

Constraint inspires creativity

Imagination is the most powerful tool you have. You learn it from all the greats. The Star Wars films are secretive. Anything J.J. Abrams does is secretive. Those guys haven't done too poorly.

One gets into a state of creativity by conscious work.

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.

Of course creativity is a mystery. We don't know what drives it or what constitutes it. It's one of those things, like genius, you know it when you see it but it's impossible to define.