imagination Quotes

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

A collection is not just one basic idea. It comes from something that is in the air, something you suddenly like and put down on paper and then work out.

Is there a way to design a room in my house where I float around? I would quite enjoy that. It's nuts.

I spent my childhood in the country and started reading even before going to school. There was nothing else in my life but sketching and reading.

People can drink with their eyes; I can eat with my nose.

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.