Albert Einstein Quotes About Creativity
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Creativity is intelligence having fun.
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You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.
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Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.
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The legs are the wheels of creativity.
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Creativity is the residue of time wasted.
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Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
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But the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed.
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Creativity is one of those hypnotic words which are prone to cast a spell upon our understanding and dissolve our thinking into haze.
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To stimulate creativity one must develop childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition.
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The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
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A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way, but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.
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A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.
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A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity.
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Creativity is seeing what others see and thinking what no one else has ever thought.
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The music of Mozart is of such purity and beauty that one feels he merely found it - that it has always existed as part of the inner beauty of the universe waiting to be revealed.
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To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
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True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
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The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.
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The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
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In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy.
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If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
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One should never impose one's views on a problem; one should rather study it, and in time a solution will reveal itself.
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Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
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Problems cannot be solved by thinking within the framework in which the problems were created.
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I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
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I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking
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It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.
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Failure is success in progress
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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
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Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
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Albert Einstein
- Born: March 14, 1879
- Died: April 18, 1955
- Occupation: Theoretical Physicist
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