Man Ray Quotes

Education is the foundation for all we do in life, it shapes who we are and what we aspire to be. Creativity fuels innovation, and it's what all states should strive to instill in the next generations.

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

Education is the basis of creative thought: the ability to go beyond asking why to why not.

The old adage is, 'Write what you know.' But if you only do that, your work becomes claustrophobic. I say, 'Write what you want to know.'

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

You never know where your influences are going to come from, or where you're going to find your inspiration.

A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.

One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry

Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the same part of the mind.

People ask me, 'Don't you ever run out of ideas?' Well, on the first place, I don't use ideas. Every time I have an idea, it's too limiting and usually turns out to be a disappointment. But I haven't run out of curiosity.

Writing isn't necessarily about what one knows but what one wants to know.

When writing 'Give and Take' and 'Originals,' the predominant emotion for me was curiosity.

Creativity is a scavenger hunt. It's your obligation to pay attention to clues, to the thing that gives you that little tweak.

To search for unasked questions, plus questions to put to already acquired but unsought answers, it is vital to give full play to the imagination. That is the way to create truly original science.

Leaders, if you allow wonder to shut down in you, you will shut it down in everyone around you.

Curiosity is the key to creativity.

Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

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

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

What drives the creative person is that we see it all.

I think I've always been slightly addicted to not repeating myself. When you're doing something the first time around, it's often the best time. I think 'Blank Project' is about carrying on. Its that thing where you're making something because you have to, but you don't know how or why.

We will always have more to discover, more to invent, more to understand and that's much closer to art and literature than any science.

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.