imagination quotes & sayings

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 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." ~Laurens Van der Post


I'm creative — you can't expect me to be neat too. ~Author Unknown


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


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, Real Dreams


I am now and have always been a stranger to the realm of practical matters. ~Anton Chekhov


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


Those who do not think outside the box are easily contained. ~Nicolas Manetta


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