Quotations About Imagination I

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. ~Michelangelo

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. ~Dr. Theodore Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss

Nothing encourages creativity like the chance to fall flat on one's face. ~James D. Finley Some stories are true that never happened. ~Elie Weisel

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards. ~Lewis Carroll

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! ~Dr. Seuss

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact. ~William Shakespeare

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. ~Francis Bacon

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try! ~Dr. Seuss

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. ~Author Unknown

The Possible's slow fuse is lit By the Imagination. ~Emily Dickinson

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. ~George Smith Patton

The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person. ~Frank Barron

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. ~Mark Twain

Don't expect anything original from an echo. ~Author Unknown

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. ~Pablo Picasso

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. ~Jack London

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. ~G.K. Chesterton

Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life. ~Simone Weil

Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica. ~Stephen Leacock