Max Planck Quotes

The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.

Intellectual curiosity drove Einstein to some of the world's most important discoveries.

As artists, I think that one of the good qualities we have is that we're imaginative. We're resourceful. We like challenges.

Writers and painters alike are in the business of consulting their own imaginations, and stimulating the imaginations of others. Together, and separately, they celebrate the absolute mystery of otherness.

I'm a creator at heart.

Our internal artist is always our creative child.

There is no oil so thick as to destroy the imagination.

Do not copy nature. Art is an abstraction. Rather, bring your art forth by dreaming in front of her and think more of creation.

For people who live in the imagination, there is no lack of subjects. To seek for the exact moment at which inspiration comes is false. Imagination floods us with suggestions all the time, from all directions.

Artists aren't looking for you to write them something; they're looking for you to give them something new.

It is at least worth arguing that there is a modicum of the creative novelist in all of us, and that this absorption with how men get out of difficulties, single-handedly and alone if possible, is the stuff of which we weave the warp and woof of our own better dramatic imaginings.

Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

People frequently believe the creative life is grounded in fantasy. The more difficult truth is that creativity is grounded in reality, in the particular, the focused, the well observed or specifically imagined.

An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic.

The pioneer scientist must have "a vivid intuitive imagination, for new ideas are not generated by deduction, but by artistically creative imagination."

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.

So much of creativity is the feeling that you're either getting a gift from some other dimension or some other part of yourself.

To create one must be willing to be stone stupid, to sit upon a throne on top of a jackass and spill rubies from one’s mouth. Then the river will flow, then we can stand in the stream of it raining down.

He lives with his creativity in high gear.

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

I think that everything is part of creativity - the more you create, the more you have ideas, and the more you meet people.

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

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

Using my imagination and creativity is exciting to me.

I happen to love science... Scientists are all slightly mad. There is truth in the stereotype of the mad scientist. They are mad with curiosity.