Quotations About Imagination II

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. ~Norman Podhoretz

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. ~Joseph Joubert

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. ~Lewis Carroll

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. ~Ansel Adams

Things are only impossible until they're not. ~Jean-Luc Picard

When you are describing, A shape, or sound, or tint; Don't state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things, With a sort of mental squint. ~Lewis Carroll

When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars. ~Vincent Van Gogh

The theoretician believes in logic and believes that he despises dreams, intuition, and poetry. He does not recognize that these three fairies have only disguised themselves in order to dazzle him.... He does not know that he owes his greatest discoveries to them. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Trust that little voice in your head that says "Wouldn't it be interesting if..." And then do it. ~Duane Michals

Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun. ~George Scialabba

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. ~Henry David Thoreau

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few. ~Emily Dickinson

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. ~Albert Einstein

Anyone who can be replaced by a machine deserves to be. ~Dennis Gunton

Really we create nothing. We merely plagiarize nature. ~Jean Baitaillon

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. ~Jessamyn West

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind. ~William Butler Yeats

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant. ~Ursula K. Le Guin

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. ~Albert Szent-Györgyi

I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see. ~Duane Michals

I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally. ~Calvin Trillin

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training. ~Anna Freud

To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted. ~George Kneller

When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge. ~Tuli Kupferberg

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block. ~Paul Gauguin