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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.
I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.
I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can 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.
Reality is that part of the imagination we all agree on
Reality is that part of the imagination we all agree on
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.
 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! 
I reject your reality and substitute it for my own.
I reject your reality and substitute it for my own.
 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.] 
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. -Joseph Joubert.
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. -Joseph Joubert.