Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes

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

In truth, every creation of the mind is first of all 'poetic' in the proper sense of the word; and inasmuch as there exists an equivalence between the modes of sensibility and intellect, it is the same function that is exercised initially in the enterprises of the poet and the scientist.

It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.

I like to see a film and then start scoring it in my mind while doing something unrelated. You just grasp a film and start working, and something unpredictable comes out from a third element. The mind, the more active it is, the more productive it is.

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

What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.

The curve of imagination, the curve of brilliance and the curve of sanity are identical curves or at least similar curves... The more imagination a person has, why, the more intelligence, the more knowingness he has and the saner he's going to be.

Creativity is not an ability that you either have or do not have. It is, for example, and this may surprise you, absolutely unrelated to IQ, provided you're intelligent above a certain minimal level.

Genius is that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates.

There are two types of genius; one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being fertilized and giving birth.

Intelligence is not creative; judgment is not creative. If a sculptor is nothing but skill and mind, his hands will be without genius.

Creativity is an inherent human quality of the highest order. When we create, we become more than the sum of our parts.

A lot of people think inspiration means magic. But really, inspiration means to put life into something.

Young men and young women, full of courage, originality, and genius, are everywhere to be met with.

Imagination is the air of mind.

What you discover when you look at creativity from the perspective of the brain is that it is universal. We're all creative all of the time, we can't help but be creative.

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

If you're a creative person, what inspires you is always changing; it's always shifting.

What makes me different as a scientist is that I'm kind of imaginative. The ideas just happen.

What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that is the ability to distinguish patterns out of chaos.

I actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Genius is initiative on fire.

Love can reach the same level of talent, and even genius, as the discovery of differential calculus.