Quotes on imagination
I remembered a story of how Bach was approached by a young admirer one day and asked, "But Papa Bach, how do you manage to think of all these new tunes?" "My dear fellow," Bach is said to have answered, according to my version, "I have no need to think of them. I have the greatest difficulty not to step on them when I get out of bed in the morning and start moving around my room."
Post, Laurens van der
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
Carroll, Lewis
When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
Gogh, Vincent Van
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Carroll, Lewis
Everything you can imagine is real.
Picasso, Pablo
There is nothing touches our imagination so much as a beautiful woman in a plain dress.
Addison, Joseph
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
Szent-Györgyi, Albert
A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.
Unknown, Author
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith
My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz. It's the letter I use to spell yuzz-a-ma-tuzz. You'll be sort of surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond 'Z' and start poking around!
Seuss, Dr.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Patton, George Smith
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
Yeats, William Butler
Sometimes imagination pounces; mostly it sleeps soundly in the corner, purring.
Grimutter, Leslie
I think the world really boils down to two types of people - those who see shapes in cloud formations, and those who just see clouds.
Pace, Danzae
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Einstein, Albert
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
Joubert, Joseph
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
Adams, Ansel