Quotes About Imagination

Because white men can't police their imaginations, black men are dying.

One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment.

A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.

Where oil is first found is in the minds of men

Everybody can draw, in my estimation. If you give a man 50 years, he'll come up with the Mona Lisa.

Man created God in his own image.

If I were a man with gills, I would be a fish!

The man who never dreams, goes slowly mad.

When man resolved to imitate walking, he invented the wheel, which does not look like a leg. In doing this, he was practicing surrealism without knowing it.

A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.

Many heroic exploits and chivalrous adventures are related to me which exist only in the regions of fancy. With me the world has taken great liberties, and yet I have been but a common man.

An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.

Dreaming men are haunted men.

Old men dream dreams; young men see visions.

Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.

When man tries to imagine Paradise on earth, the immediate result is a very respectable Hell.

It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

Man's need for art is absolutely primordial, as strong as, and perhaps stronger than, our need for bread. Without bread, we die of hunger, but without art we die of boredom.

A field of clay touched by the genius of man becomes a castle.

Painting... in which the inner and the outer man are inseparable, transcends technique, transcends subject and moves into the realm of the inevitable.

The greatest joy of a thinking man is to have searched the explored and to quietly revere the unexplored.

The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world.

Man is never truly himself except when he is actively creating something.