Quotes about Imagination
Why should I copy this owl, this sea urchin? Why should I try to imitate nature? I might just as well try to trace a perfect circle.
— Pablo Picasso
A wish is an attitude of mind to which wings have been attached. You wish and you dream, and your whole nature focuses to bring your wishes and dreams to pass.
— Norman Vincent Peale
For me, the world of nature bears spectacular witness to the imaginative genius of our Creator.
— Philip Yancey
True art is but the anti-type of nature; the embodiment of discovered beauty in utility.
— James A. Garfield
New arts are long in the world before poets describe them; for they borrow everything from their predecessors, and commonly derive very little from nature or from life.
— Samuel Johnson
The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
— Helen Keller
Make thought a whirlwind.
— Victor Hugo
It's fun to invent systems and meanings and then poke holes in them.
— Marty Rubin
The wheat field has ...poetry; it is like a memory of something one has once seen. We can only make our pictures speak.
— Vincent Van Gogh
We are surrounded by poetry on all sides.
— Vincent Van Gogh
But it isn't easy,' said Pooh. 'Because Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is to go where they can find you.
— AA Milne
The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights.
— Samuel Johnson