Imagination Quotations

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There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

- Ansel Adams

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A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.

- Unknown Author

Don't expect anything original from an echo.

- Unknown Author

Francis Bacon

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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

- Francis Bacon

Lewis Carroll

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It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

- Lewis Carroll

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

- Lewis Carroll

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

- Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Albert Einstein

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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause and stand wrapped in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

- Albert Einstein

Paul Gauguin

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It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.

- Paul Gauguin

Vincent van Gogh

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When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

- Vincent van Gogh

Ursula le Guin

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I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

- Ursula le Guin

Joseph Joubert

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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

- Joseph Joubert

Stephen Butler Leacock

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Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.

- Stephen Butler Leacock

Jack London

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You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

- Jack London

Duane Michals

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I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.

- Duane Michals

Trust that little voice in your head that says "Wouldn't it be interesting if..." And then do it.

- Duane Michals

Michelangelo

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I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

- Michelangelo

George Smith Patton

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Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

- George Smith Patton

Pablo Picasso

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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

- Pablo Picasso

Edgar Allan Poe

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They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

- Edgar Allan Poe

Anthony Robbins

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The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.

- Anthony Robbins

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The theoretician believes in logic and believes that he despises dreams, intuition, and poetry. He does not recognize that these three fairies have only disguised themselves in order to dazzle him.... He does not know that he owes his greatest discoveries to them.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Dr. Seuss

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My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz. It's the letter I use to spell yuzz-a-ma-tuzz. You'll be sort of surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond 'Z' and start poking around!

- Dr. Seuss

William Shakespeare

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The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

- William Shakespeare

Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi

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Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

- Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi

Henry David Thoreau

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It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.