Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

These are the gloomy comparisons of a disturbed imagination; the
melancholy madness of poetry, without the inspiration.

These are the gloomy comparisons of a disturbed imagination; the
melancholy madness of poetry, without the inspiration.

Nothing encourages creativity like the chance to fall flat on one's face.

Nothing encourages creativity like the chance to fall flat on one's face.

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

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

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

When I could not sleep for cold
I had fire enough in my brain,
And builded with read more

When I could not sleep for cold
I had fire enough in my brain,
And builded with roofs of gold
My beautiful castles in Spain!

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste.
[Ger., Es ist nichts furchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne
Geschmack.]

There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste.
[Ger., Es ist nichts furchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne
Geschmack.]

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.