Vivienne Westwood Quotes

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

Vision is the true creative rhythm.

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.

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

Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.

Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination.

There is no need to create. Genius comes only to those who know how to use their eyes and their intelligence.

Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

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.

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.

Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

Imagination decides everything.

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

The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.