Quotes About Imagination

The sixties produced an anarchic mind-set that is great for imagining a world not yet in existence.

He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology, so he built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering.

The ladies staged tableaux vivants, in which they dressed in costume to re-create famous paintings.

If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, 'A faster horse!'" People don't know what they want until you show it to them. That's why I never rely on market research. Our task is to read things that are not yet on the page.

great innovations are usually the result of ideas that flow from a large

glories of being able to think different, yet until

Many of the figures in his preparatory drawings are nude; he had come to believe in Alberti's advice that an artist should build a picture of a human body from the inside out, first conceiving of the skeleton, then the skin, then the clothing.

Walter Isaacson

people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones

market research. Our task is to read things that are not yet on the page.

Therein lies the key, I think, to Einstein's brilliance and the lessons of his life. As a young student he never did well with rote learning. And later, as a theorist, his success came not from the brute strength of his mental processing power but from his imagination and creativity.

It seemed to him that the hand was not able to attain to the perfection of art in carrying out the things which he imagined.

This ability to "make a flat surface display a body as if modeled and separated from this plane," Leonardo said, was "the first intention of the painter."3

New ideas occur when a lot of random notions churn together until they coalesce.

Retain a childlike sense of wonder. At a certain point in life, most of us quit puzzling over everyday phenomena. We might savor the beauty of a blue sky, but we no longer bother to wonder why it is that color. Leonardo did. So did Einstein, who wrote to another friend, "You and I never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born."5 We should be careful to never outgrow our wonder years, or to let our children do so.

What made Leonardo a genius, what set him apart from people who are merely extraordinarily smart, was creativity, the ability to apply imagination to intellect.

From the eyes of his angel in the Baptism of Christ to the smile of the Mona Lisa, the blurred and smoke-veiled edges allow a role for our own imagination

He was still Leonardo, always pursuing a curiosity, less passionate about tying up loose ends.

Great art stretches the taste, it doesn't follow tastes

I think Henry Ford once said, "If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, 'A faster horse!'" People don't know what they want until you show it to them. That's why I never rely on market research. Our task is to read things that are not yet on the page.

innovative creativity that it would outlive them.

movimiento y la emoción, las dos columnas gemelas del arte de Leonardo

Walter Isaacson

innovación. Creo que los grandes artistas y los grandes ingenieros se parecen, porque ambos sienten el deseo de expresarse.