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."
Link to Quote
Laurens van der Post Quotes
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
Link to Quote
Lewis Carroll Quotes
When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
Link to Quote
Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.
Link to Quote
George Kneller Quotes
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
Link to Quote
William Shakespeare Quotes
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Link to Quote
Lewis Carroll Quotes
Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life.
Link to Quote
Simone Weil Quotes
Everything you can imagine is real.
Link to Quote
Pablo Picasso Quotes
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
Link to Quote
Michelangelo Quotes
The faculty of imagination is both the rudder and the bridle of the senses.
Link to Quote
Leonardo DaVinci Quotes
The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.
Link to Quote
Frank Barron Quotes
I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.
Link to Quote
Duane Michals Quotes
Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
Link to Quote
Jessamyn West Quotes
There is nothing touches our imagination so much as a beautiful woman in a plain dress.
Link to Quote
Joseph Addison Quotes
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
Link to Quote
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Quotes
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
Link to Quote
Albert Szent-Györgyi Quotes
When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.
Link to Quote
Tuli Kupferberg Quotes
They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Link to Quote
Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.
Link to Quote
Paul Gauguin Quotes
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
Link to Quote
Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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.
Link to Quote
Author Unknown Quotes
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
Link to Quote
Dr. Theodore Geisel Quotes
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
Link to Quote
Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes
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!
Link to Quote
Dr. Seuss Quotes
Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.
Link to Quote
Norman Podhoretz Quotes
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
Link to Quote
Pablo Picasso Quotes
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Link to Quote
George Smith Patton Quotes
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
Link to Quote
William Butler Yeats Quotes
Sometimes imagination pounces; mostly it sleeps soundly in the corner, purring.
Link to Quote
Leslie Grimutter Quotes
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.
Link to Quote
Danzae Pace Quotes
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Link to Quote
Albert Einstein Quotes
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
Link to Quote
Joseph Joubert Quotes
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
Link to Quote
Ansel Adams Quotes
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause and stand wrapped in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
Link to Quote
Albert Einstein Quotes
Trust that little voice in your head that says "Wouldn't it be interesting if..." And then do it.
Link to Quote
Duane Michals Quotes
The human race is governed by its imagination.
Link to Quote
Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes