I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.
I want meadows red in tone and trees painted in blue. Nature has no imagination.
Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination.
To see far is one thing, going there is another.
Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.
According to the current doctrines of mysticoscientism, we human animals are really and actually nothing but "organic patterns of nodular energy composed of collocations of infinitesimal points oscillating on the multi-dimensional coordinates of the space-time continuum". I'll have to think about that. Sometime. Meantime, I'm going to gnaw on this sparerib, drink my Blatz beer, and contemplate the a posteriori coordinates of that young blonde over yonder, the one in the tennis skirt, tying her shoelaces.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.
Many live in the ivory tower called reality; they never venture on the open sea of thought.
Boredom excites imagination
Most idealistic people are skint. I have discovered that people with money have no imagination, and people with imagination have no money.
Although all knowledge begins with experience, it does not necessarily all spring from experience.
... imagination acts upon man as really as does gravitation, and may kill him as certainly as a dose of prussic acid.
Man consists of body, mind and imagination. His body is faulty, his mind untrustworthy, but his imagination has made him remarkable.
Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
The man with imagination and no culture has wings without feet
Your imagination, my dear fellow, is worth more than you imagine.
So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination. ..And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do no bring forth in the agitation.
Imagination rules the world.
If one is not half mad how can one give birth to a dancing star?
If one is not half mad how can one give birth to a dancing star?
The real is always way ahead of what we can imagine.
Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious
Consolation from imaginary things is not an imaginary consolation
I don't want realistic!† I want magic!
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
My happiness did indeed arise from the same secret as the happiness in dreams; it arose from the freedom to experience everything imaginable simultaneously, to exchange outward and inward easily...as we conquered the war-shattered world by our faith and transformed it into paradise, we creatively brought the past, the future and the fictitious into the present moment. The present moment! Now!
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.
To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.
Art degraded, Imagination denied.
I don't care much for facts, am not much interested in them, you can't stand a fact up, you've got to prop it up, and when you move to one side a little and look at it from that angle, it's not thick enough to cast a shadow in that direction.
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
