Imagination
Leonard Bernstein on Inspiration
“Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time… The wait is simply too long.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Thoughts
“In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.”
John Russell on Sanity
“Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.”
Edgar Allan Poe on Dreams
“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
Albert Einstein on Imagination
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”
Pablo Picasso on Art
“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.”
Christopher Morley on Imagination
“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.”
Bertrand Russell on Society
“Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on Ideas
“When ideas fail, words come in very handy.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan on Imagination
“He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.”
Neil Armstrong on Mystery
“Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton on Imagination
“It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.”
Tom Stoppard on Art & Imagination
“Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.”
Hector Berlioz on Ideas
“Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.”
Carl Sagan on Imagination
“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.”
William Shakespeare on Imagination
“The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.”
Lewis Carroll on Memory
“It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backward.”
Albert Einstein on Wisdom at Solving Problems
“The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.”
Pablo Picasso on Imagination
“I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.”
Pablo Picasso on Imagination
“Everything you can imagine is real.”
Albert Einstein on Logic and Imagination
“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
H. L. Mencken on Imagination
“Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.”
Sir Arthur Eddington on the Universe
“Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.”
Thomas A. Edison
“To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery on Imagination
“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.”