Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

We cannot create what we can't imagine.

I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses.

I like people who can see what other people can't yet imagine.

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.

There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace.

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

I think the mind should deliver new and fresh designs all the time.

Creativity is not a mysterious thing, it's a historical thing.

I like to find areas where design has not yet gone.

I would never, ever change the formula of what we would do, but what I want to do is go down somewhere really conceptual. Really artistic. Really theme-oriented. But I don't want to push anything.

People that are able to think in terms of concepts and offer us valuable forms of art are very exciting to me.

I don't want to design something that everybody else would do. I want to design something that's bigger or better or funnier or more beautiful.

Creativity is a catchall term for a variety of distinct thought processes.

Talent may frolic and juggle; genius realizes and adds.

Genius resembles a bell; in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful toneis silenced.

Originality and creativity are nothing but the result of the wise management of combinations. The creative genius combines more rapidly, and with a greater critical sense of what gets tossed out and what gets saved, the same material that the failed genius has to work with.

The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination

A writer's brain is like a magician's hat. If you're going to get anything out of it, you have to put something in it first.

Imagination is the power of the mind over the possibilities of things.

Invent. I love inventing, that's my first passion.

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.

Creativity is the art of the impossible