John Ruskin Quotes

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

The imagination is one of the forces of nature.

All children have creative power.

I have more ideas than I'll ever be able to write in five lifetimes.

There is no privilege in restriction. In other words, I disagree with people who say restriction makes you more creative. I think that's a misleading slogan. I might have been more creative without them than with them.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

Art, it seems to me, doesn't need freedom so much as it needs courage and love - some would call it 'soul' or 'Eros.'

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.

A place of freedom is the best place to have the most creativity.

Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.

When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him... For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.

I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.

What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.

I just want to be able to be creative.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?

There's no one way to be creative. Any old way will work.

I always say that I'm at my best when there's no example of what the character is supposed to be. I thrive when there's not much and I have to create it.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

I go wherever my creativity takes me.