Quotes About Imagination

He paints for the blind, and we are the blind, and he lets us see for sure what we saw long ago but weren't sure we saw. He paints for the dead, to remind us that - great good God, think of it - we're alive ...

People joked that Forster became more renowned with every book he did not write.

The other day when I was walking through the woods, I saw a rabbit standing in front of a candle making shadows of people on a tree.

Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.

The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.

Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.

In an era when the nation's collective imagination is no longer captured by space, real science sometimes has a smaller budget than science fiction.

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

Creativity in science could be described as the act of putting two and two together to make five

The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does

An important aspect of being a scientist isn't just knowing the math, but also knowing of imagination.

The most direct and enduring way to reach the mind and imagination of the learner is through the mind, imagination and character of the outstanding teacher.

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Science can teach us, and I think our own hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supports, no longer to invent allies in the sky, but rather to look to our own efforts here below to make this world a fit place to live in, instead

I was always a drama queen. I remember playing in the kitchen, trying to get my mom to think I was dead and call the police. When she didn't, I would cry. I was always theatrical. I don't think any of my relatives are surprised.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Gaze up at the stars knowing that I see the same sky and wish the same sweet dreams.

You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day.

Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese - toasted, mostly.

You are free to do as you are told. For freedom, is a figment of your imagination. But imagination is where it all starts. So MAKE freedom.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

We [poets] set men free from their desires.