Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training – Anna Freud.

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept – Ansel Adams.

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral – Antoine de Saint-Exupery.

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world – Blaise Pascal.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere – Carl Sagan.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try! – Dr. Seuss.

I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see – Duane Michals.

Some stories are true that never happened – Elie Weisel.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea – Francis Bacon.

You see things; and you say, “Why?” But I dream things that never were; and I say, “Why not?” – George Bernard Shaw.

To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted – George Kneller.

Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun – George Scialabba.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity – George Smith Patton.

The world is but a canvas to the imagination – Henry David Thoreau.

You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club – Jack London.

Nothing encourages creativity like the chance to fall flat on one’s face – James D. Finley.

Really we create nothing. We merely plagiarize nature – Jean Baitaillon.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet – Joseph Joubert.

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly – Lauren Bacall.

Sometimes imagination pounces; mostly it sleeps soundly in the corner, purring – Leslie Grimutter.

You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus – Mark Twain.

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free – Michelangelo.

Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception – Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life – Simone Weil.

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact – William Shakespeare.