Man, too, has wings, he has imagination.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Put the world’s greatest philosopher on a plank that is wider than need be: if there is a precipice below, although his reason may convince him that he is safe, his imagination will prevail. Many could not even stand the thought of it without going pale and breaking into a sweat.
Whoever tries to imagine perfection simply reveals his own emptiness.
The imagination is nothing other than the subject transported into things.
To imagine is to raise the real by a tone.
All original thinking takes place in images, and this is why imagination is so necessary an instrument of thought, and minds that lack imagination will never accomplish much.
To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.
All fear is imaginary, reality is its antidote.
Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom.
This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.
You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.
