Quotes About Imagination

The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most.

Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty if only we have the eyes to see them.

All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.

If you think things can't get any worse, you have no imagination and no sense of history.

There are no dreams too large, no innovation unimaginable and no frontiers beyond our reach.

Here's a quick rule of thumb: Don't annoy science fiction writers. These are people who destroy entire planets before lunch. Think of what they'll do to you.

I am not responsible for actions of the imaginary version of me you have inside your head.

The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made. And the activity of making them changes both the maker and the destination.

Dream with a purpose

Mai looked around, marveling at the nearly finished paintings on the stairwell's walls.....Mai wished that she could create something as beautiful. She was certain that to create such beauty, the painter must have laughed many times.

He creates mosques and forts that aren't buildings, but tapestries of rock.

The problem with artists, Jahanara, is that we often forget the more common things in life. Our heads are so high in the clouds that we don't see the world beneath.

Poetry is a story that is so good, It doesn't need complete sentences.

Texas is not a state -- it's a state of mind.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.

Originality is the one thing unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

The first addresses itself to our reason and conscience; the second to our imagination; the third to our human fellow-feeling. According to the first, we approve or disapprove; according to the second, we admire or despise; according to the third, we love, pity, or dislike. The bmoralityb of an action depends on its foreseeable consequences; its beauty, and its loveableness, or the reverse, depend on the qualities which

He committed the mistake of supposing that the abusinessa part of human affairs was the whole of them; all at least that the legislator and the moralist had to do with. Not that he disregarded moral influences when he perceived them; but his want of imagination, small experience of human feelings, and ignorance of the filiation and connexion of feelings with one another, made this rarely the case.