“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.”— Albert Einstein, goodreads.com
“No one is ahead of his time, it is only that the particular variety of creating his time is the one that his contemporaries who are also creating their own time refuse to accept... For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts. In the history of the…”— Gertrude Stein, amazon.com
“Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.”— Henry James, amazon.com
“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn’t impress me. I only beli…”— Anaïs Nin, wordsofwomen.com
“Isolation in creative work is an onerous thing. Better to have negative criticism than nothing at all.”— Anton Chekhov, en.wikiquote.org
“Courage is the key to creativity and to any relinquishing of ego structure.”— Timothy Leary, books.google.com
“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.”— Albert Einstein, en.wikiquote.org
“Every new painting is like throwing myself into the water without knowing how to swim.”— Edouard Manet, edouard-manet.net
“A lot of people who are artists don’t understand it themselves. Especially the young ones. They feel different, but they don’t know what it is. They feel more. Everything hurts. Everything. They’re super sensitive. They see things that other people don’t see.”— Rick Rubin, esquire.com
“I’ve got quite a vivid imagination and I’m easily overwhelmed by sensations and things that are beautiful or scary. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a ghost - I think I’m probably haunted by my own ghosts than real ones.”— Florence Welch, digitalspy.com
“The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“I’ve always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity.”— Will Wright, edition.cnn.com
“Everyone wants to understand painting. Why don't they try to understand the song of the birds? Why do they love a night, a flower, everything which surrounds man, without attempting to understand them? Whereas where painting is concerned, they want to understand. Let them understand above all that t…”— Pablo Picasso, amazon.com
“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way - things I had no words for.”— Georgia O’Keeffe, amazon.com