#creativity

Jack," said Charles, "he's making up words again." "Yes," Jack replied, "but he's getting better at it, don't you think? ↗

— James A. Owen

#humor #humor

Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#humor #imagination #whimsy #humor

And so we keep on thinking, because the next thought might be the answer. ↗

— Jonah Lehrer

#imagination-reading #thinking #imagination

Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#authors #creativity #imagination #imagination

There is a master way with words which is not learned but is instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man exceptional hearing, a silent man, when given a piece of paper... ↗

— Criss Jami

#building-up #compression #creativity #deaf #development

Fantasy leaves imaginations larger than it finds them. ↗

— Brandon Mull

#fantasy #fiction #imagination #imagination

My head was a desolate place and as barren as the bare hills of Le Marche. Until I began to build in it, only vultures nested there. ↗

— Lisa St Aubin de Terán

#imagination #imagination

To a clear eye the smallest fact is a window through which the infinite may be seen. ↗

— Thomas Henry Huxley

#imagination #imagination

The arts especially address the idea of aesthetic experience. An aesthetic experience is one in which your senses are operating at their peak; when you’re present in the current moment; when you’re resonating with the excitement of this thing that you’re experiencing; when you are fully alive. ↗

— Ken Robinson

#creativity #writing #art

...the imagination is unleashed by constraints. You break out of the box by stepping into shackles. ↗

— Jonah Lehrer

#creativity #imagination #limitations #imagination