Quotes about Imagination
You have first to experience what you want to express.
— Vincent Van Gogh
One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games.
— Carl Jung
I never had much interest in the piano until I realized that every time I played, a girl would appear on the piano bench to my left and another to my right.
— Duke Ellington
For they (art and music) are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.
— CS Lewis
Everything you can imagine, nature has already created.
— Albert Einstein
It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.
— Oscar Wilde
To call everything that appears illogical, fantasy, fairy tale, or chimera would be practically to admit not understanding nature.
— Marc Chagall
But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
— Carl Sagan
Why should I copy this owl, this sea urchin? Why should I try to imitate nature? I might just as well try to trace a perfect circle.
— Pablo Picasso
A wish is an attitude of mind to which wings have been attached. You wish and you dream, and your whole nature focuses to bring your wishes and dreams to pass.
— Norman Vincent Peale
For me, the world of nature bears spectacular witness to the imaginative genius of our Creator.
— Philip Yancey
True art is but the anti-type of nature; the embodiment of discovered beauty in utility.
— James A. Garfield