Imagination rules the world.

Imagination rules the world.

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.

I shut my eyes in order to see.

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but read more

Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which 'are' there.

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 more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces read more

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

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.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems
from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks read more

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems
from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real
advance in science.

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.