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.

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.

Reality is that part of the imagination we all agree on

Reality is that part of the imagination we all agree on

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling read more

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

These are the gloomy comparisons of a disturbed imagination; the
melancholy madness of poetry, without the inspiration.

These are the gloomy comparisons of a disturbed imagination; the
melancholy madness of poetry, without the inspiration.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

People who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their read more

People who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.