She kept asking me if the stories were true. I kept asking her if it mattered. We finally gave up. She was looking for a place to stand and I wanted a place to fly. – Brian Andreas, Mostly True: Collected Stories and Drawings, 1993
The imagination is a palette of bright colors. You can use it to touch up memories — or you can use it to paint dreams. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Some stories are true that never happened. – Elie Weisel
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. – Francis Bacon
Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try! – Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. – George Smith Patton, War as I Knew It, 1947
The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person. – Frank Barron, Think, November-December 1962
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. – Pablo Picasso
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. – G.K. Chesterton
Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life. – Simone Weil
Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica. – Stephen Leacock
Sometimes imagination pounces; mostly it sleeps soundly in the corner, purring. – Terri Guillemets
Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence. – Norman Podhoretz
They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. – Edgar Allan Poe, “Eleonora”
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. – Joseph Joubert
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. – Ansel Adams
I admit to having an imagination feverish enough to melt good judgment. – Dean R. Koontz, Seize the Night
When I have a terrible need of — shall I say the word — religion. Then I go out and paint the stars. – Vincent Van Gogh
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. – Author Unknown
