C. S. Lewis Quotes

To start with invention is the mark of the fertile mind ... and leads later to the interpretation of experience; to start with the reproduction of experience is the infallible index of a barren invention.

If you're alive, you're a creative person.

Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.

Inspiration is the opportunity of genius.

The greatest gift that you were ever given was the gift of your imagination.

Imagination! My problem is that I have so many ideas, I never have enough time to use them all. Just the other day I thought up eleven things I could do with a flowerpot. Eleven! Three of those things didn't even involve plants.

The critical mind is the creative mind.

The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the germs of its production.

Genius points the way, talent takes it.

Your imagination, my dear fellow, is worth more than you imagine.

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.

My capacity for invention is flash hot stark, I thought. Sucker sunshade. Disembodied radar-reconnaissance. Not to mention Bitter Chocolate Death and Killer Zebras. Pity about the rest of me.

Where there is creativity, there is hope.

The mind is a strange machine which can combine the materials offered to it in the most astonishing ways.

Creativity has got to be the warp and woof, the heart and soul, of our sermons.

the distinction between talent and genius is definite. Talent combines and uses; genius combines and creates.

I have no imagination; I just steal from life and change the color. Then it's a comic book.

Personally, I rather think that if you're not creative you've got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you've got a double problem.

There is no such thing as creative and non-creative people, only people who use their creativity and people who don't.

Originality houses many rooms, and the views from the windows are all different.

When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something.

It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover. To know how to criticize is good, to know how to create is better.

You cannot innovate by copying.

All you need is your own imagination. So use it that's what it's for.