Quotes About Imagination

You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.

I never got a pass mark in math ... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books.

Perfection never exists in reality, but only in our dreams.

Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.

There is no depth to education without art.

Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.

I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a dreamer.

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.

To suggest is to create; to describe is to destroy.

I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write songs like, "What I'm going to do if I grow up".

In a normal education everything is designed to suppress spontaneity, but I wanted to develop it.

A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game.

The child, unhampered, does not waste time.

Creativity stands at the center of all education.

Once it is recognized that productive thinking in any area of cognition is perceptual thinking, the central function of art in general education will become evident.

As the fertilest ground, must be manured, so must the highest flying wit have a Daedalus to guide him.

Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.

It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.

Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative death of this country.

For everyone else who aren't fantasy fans or who don't know anything about 'The Witcher', this is something that we can experience together because it's drawn from the novels, but there is so much within the novels that we have developed.

Art is everywhere, and everywhere is art.

When I was a kid going into the movies, you weren't force-fed information everywhere you looked about what the movie was going to be.