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.
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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
Reality is that part of the imagination we all agree on
Reality is that part of the imagination we all agree on
He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.
[Lat., Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus aprum.]
He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.
[Lat., Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus aprum.]
Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only read more
Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the read more
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
The human race is governed by its imagination.
[Fr., C'est l'imagination qui gouverne le genre humain.]
The human race is governed by its imagination.
[Fr., C'est l'imagination qui gouverne le genre humain.]
I always imagined I could be what I wanted to be.
I always imagined I could be what I wanted to be.
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.
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of read more
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
