imagination Quotes

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

The poet, being an imitator like a painter or any other artist, must of necessity imitate one of three objects - things as they were or are, things as they are said or thought to be, or things as they ought to be. The vehicle of expression is language - either current terms or, it may be, rare words or metaphors.

The soul never thinks without a picture.

You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'

Some men see things as they are and say, 'Why?' I dream of things that never were and say, 'Why not?'.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.