Quotes About Imagination

Let's leave the window, and write. No need to wait for a fine blue to break through. We must live, make do.

your slightest look easily will unclose me though i have closed myself as fingers, you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens (touching skillfully, mysteriously) her first rose or if your wish be to close me, i and my life will shut very beautifully, as when the heart of this flower imagines the snow everywhere descending

Experience shows that in such undertakings, the imagination is alarmed not so much by realities as phantoms, which vanish before a courageous heart which can look them in the face with contempt

Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.

Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.

Un soir qu'ils étaient couchés l'un près de l'autre, comme elle lui demandait d'inventer un poème qui commencerait par je connais un beau pays, il s'exécuta sur-le-champ. Je connais un beau pays Il est de l'or et d'églantine Tout le monde s'y sourit Ah quelle aventure fine Les tigres y sont poltrons Les agneaux ont fière mine À tous les vieux vagabonds Ariane donne des tartines. Alors, elle lui baisa le la main, et il eut honte de cette admiration.

Innovation is not the product of logical thought, although the result is tied to logical structure.

Logics will get you from A to B, Imagination will take you everywhere.

In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the primary instincts

The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.

Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources

I live my daydreams in music.

A storm broke loose in my mind.

Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead his eyes are closed.

The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science.

This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion.

What is inconceivable about the universe is that it is at all conceivable.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.