Category: Imagination Quotes SMS

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

It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.  ~Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

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

Trust that little voice in your head that says "Wouldn’t it be interesting if…"  And then do it.  ~Duane Michals, "More Joy of Photography"

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

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.  ~William Shakespeare, Mid-Summer Night’s Dream, 1595LCD

I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity.  ~Gilda Radner

Nothing encourages creativity like the chance to fall flat on one’s face.  ~James D. Finley

Creative people are curious, flexible, persistent, and independent with a tremendous spirit of adventure and a love of play.  ~Henri Matisse

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

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

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

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

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

I never did very well in math – I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn’t meant my answers literally.  ~Calvin TrillinLLDT

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 EinsteinSD

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.  ~Jessamyn West

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, Think, November-December 1962LCD

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

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, The Language of the Night

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 […]

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

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

To unpathed waters, undreamed shores.  ~William Shakespeare

The strongest nation on earth is your imagi-nation.  ~Matt Furey

Things are only impossible until they’re not.  ~Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.  ~Author Unknown

Fairy Tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.  ~G.K. Chesterton