Erwin McManus Quotes

Through imagination, we can visit the past, contemplate the present, and anticipate the future. We can also do something else of profound and unique significance. We can create.

Any human act that gives rise to something new is referred to as a creative act, regardless of whether what is created is a physical object or some mental or emotional construct that lives within the person who created it and is known only to him.

Because of the many dimensions of forms of though which you can also put into physical form, you have the possibility to create much which we cannot fashion in the same manner.

The power of imagination is infinite.

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness... bright ideas are preceded by a gestation period that is interior, murky, and completely necessary.

This is the highest miracle of genius, that things which are not should be as though they were, that the imaginations of one mind should become the personal recollections of another.

A creative moment is part of a longer creative process which, in turn, is part of a creative life.

See all these buildings, Russell? All these buildings were once a drawing on a piece of paper, and before that they were an idea in someone’s head. Any idea that you have, you can make manifest.

Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.

Without playing with fantasy, no creative work has yet come into being.

Imagination is the beginning of reality.

Composing is like making love to the future.

... Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs.

Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness.

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

There's no better feeling than having an idea and seeing it become reality, emerging in the physical world.

I hope my kids see imagination has power to change everything.

I like to create whatever that pops up in my head, bring whatever idea to life.

Creating the future is incredibly exciting. When you talk about ideas and creativity, it's really about having that vision in your mind of how the world could be better, of how it could be a brighter place.

Our internal artist is always our creative child.

Everything becomes creative if the person doing the job is

The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.

Telling people how to be creative is easy - being creative is difficult.