Thomas Eakins Quotes

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

The thing that I was brought up to prize above everything else is the intellect. There is no problem that the intellect cannot solve, but it never had an original thought. Originality is the realm of the unconscious.

I believe intellect is needed in order to develop any creative output and that intellect alone is not enough!

Brains are no good if you don't use them.

One must be an inventor to read well.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

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

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

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

It's easy to be a genius in your twenties. In your forties, it's difficult.

Ideas sometimes come from nowhere, and sometimes they take lots of thinking.

Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas.

One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.

To invent is to discern, to choose.

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Use creativity and storytelling as your main muscle instead of smartness.

The difference between being able to understand something and inventing it in the first place... is called genius.

Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.

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

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.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

A genius is someone with the ability to come up with ideas that are new, surprising and valuable.

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