Saturday, 10 January 2015

imagination quotes & sayings

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


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


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


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, Wartime Writings 1939-1944, translated from French by Norah Purcell


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"


Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun. ~George Scialabba


Trapped by reality, freed by imagination. ~Nicolas Manetta


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


To unpathed waters, undreamed shores. ~William Shakespeare


If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future. ~Danielle Steel


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


Really we create nothing. We merely plagiarize nature. ~Jean Baitaillon, quoted in Reader's Digest Quotable Quotes: Wit and Wisdom for All Occasions, 1997

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