e. e. cummings Quotes

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

These are ideas. I could say that they just came to me, but it would be more accurate to say that I went to them. Ideas - and new connections between ideas - lead you away from commonly held perceptions of reality. Ideas lead you out here. Ideas lead you into the darkness.

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

If your mind is at work, we're in danger of reproducing another cliche. If we can keep our minds out of it and our thoughts out of it, maybe we'll come up with something original.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Creativity is the answer. I always prefer the creative solution to an expensive solution.

I go wherever my creativity takes me.

Imagination should always be treasured, even when it's slightly off-key.

There is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap.

Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

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.

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

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been.

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

I'm kind of an idea guy.

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile.

My joking answer to this question is that I leave a bowl of milk out on the back porch every night for the Idea Fairy. In the morning, the milk is gone and there's a brand-new shiny idea by the bowl.

There's no one way to be creative. Any old way will work.

The best way to renew thought is to go outside the human imagination.

An idea is salvation by imagination.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world