Quotes About Imagination

Nothing is more useful to man that those arts which have no utility.

I think if a man can create something like an atom bomb, he can surely create something with his own mind.

I think Nature's imagination is so much greater than man's, she's never gonna let us relax!

Thinking is to man what flying is to birds. Don't follow the example of a chicken when you could be a lark.

The task of man is not to discover new worlds, but to discover his own world in terms of human comprehension and beauty.

I read The Stinky Cheese Man as an adult. I missed that book when I was a kid. I grew up mostly with books bought at yard sales, picture books from the fifties to 1975, which is really a lucky thing.

Man's most valuable faculty is his imagination.

I did no research on The Best Man. That was something that came out from my own head.

A person may be totally unimaginative and have the social vision of a mole, and we still call him a decent man.

Humanity . . . lies in man's capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.

Man - a figment of God's imagination.

We need clear days to see the horizons; we need foggy nights to see beyond the horizons! Man sometimes can think much deeper when he sees less!

When you're a kid and someone's an artist, you think of Leonardo da Vinci. You don't think that's a job; you just think of a man with a beard painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

She would have liked to sit upon a rock and listen to words, not of any man, but detached, mysterious, poetic words that she alone would interpret through some sense inherited from sleep.

That which we know is but little; that which we have a presentiment of is immense; it is in this direction that the poet outruns the learned man.

I should like to paint like an man who has never seen a painting, but this man -myself - lives in a museum.

Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.

In dreams and visions lie the greatest creations of man, for on them rests no yoke of line or hue.

Progress is always the product of fresh thinking, and much of it thinking which to practical men bears the semblance of dreaming.

When men are growing up and they're reading about Batman, Spiderman, Superman ... those are not fantasies ... they're options.

Maybe all the schemes of the devil were nothing compared to what man could think up.

What kind of man gives cigarettes to trees?

Idle man, chases after fairy tales.

[My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.'