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The world is but a canvas to our imagination.
The world is but a canvas to our imagination.
The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until after having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions read more
The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until after having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the gems of its production.
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.]
The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
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.
Top 10 Creative Rules of Thumb: 1. The best way to get great ideas is to get lots of ideas read more
Top 10 Creative Rules of Thumb: 1. The best way to get great ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away. 2. Create ideas that are 15 minutes ahead of their time...not light years ahead. 3. Always look for a second right answer. 4. If at first you don't succeed, take a break. 5. Write down your ideas before you forget them. 6. If everyone says you are wrong, you're one step ahead. If everyone laughs at you, you're two steps ahead. 7. The answer to your problem "pre-exists." You need to ask the right question to reveal the answer. 8. When you ask a dumb question, you get a smart answer. 9. Never solve a problem from its original perspective. 10. Visualize your problem as solved before solving it.
The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.
The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my read more
First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
