Ken Robinson Quotes

Creating the future is incredibly exciting. When you talk about ideas and creativity, it's really about having that vision in your mind of how the world could be better, of how it could be a brighter place.

The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.

Man's most valuable faculty is his imagination.

The first step in innovation is to know that a thing can be created. After that, the rest is a matter of detail.

It was really a magical moment, to see this idea that's in your head.

The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches.

The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

Ideas are powerful because they allow us to see the world as it could be, rather than what it is.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Creativity is very much like literacy. We take it for granted that nearly everybody can learn to read and write. If a person can't read or write, you don't assume that this person is incapable of it, just that he or she hasn't learned how to do it. The same is true of creativity.

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness... bright ideas are preceded by a gestation period that is interior, murky, and completely necessary.

The richest source of creation is feeling, followed by a vision of its meaning.

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.

It is only through imagination that men become aware of what the world might be; without it, ‘progress’ would become mechanical and trivial.

Creation begins with vision.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

Inspiration is the opportunity of genius.

We know that dreams fuel innovation.

Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities.

We cannot create what we can't imagine.

Nothing drives progress like the imagination. The idea precedes the deed. The only exceptions are accidents and natural selection.

I keep on having ideas and developments. Some happen and some don't, but I still always have a way of telling a story.

Without playing with fantasy, no creative work has yet come into being.

There is something more important than logic: imagination