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Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be read more
Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams - daydreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing-are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to invent, and therefore to foster, civilization.
The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than read more
The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.
I reject your reality and substitute it for my own.
I reject your reality and substitute it for my own.
The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.
The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.
Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
Sometimes questions are more important than answers.
Sometimes questions are more important than answers.
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.