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.

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

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.

You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.

You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.

Were it not for imagination, sir, a man would be as happy in the
arms of a chambermaid as read more

Were it not for imagination, sir, a man would be as happy in the
arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from read more

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.

In my mind's eye, Horatio.

In my mind's eye, Horatio.

I'm up to my neck in the real world, every day. Just you try
doing your VAT return with read more

I'm up to my neck in the real world, every day. Just you try
doing your VAT return with a head full of goblins.

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

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