Don’t expect anything original from an echo.
Author Unknown

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
Pablo Picasso

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

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
G.K. Chesterton

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

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

When I have a terrible need of – shall I say the word – religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
Vincent Van Gogh

I think the world really boils down to two types of people – those who see shapes in cloud formations, and those who just see clouds.
Danzae Pace

Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.
George Scialabba

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.
Henry David Thoreau

Anyone who can be replaced by a machine deserves to be.
Dennis Gunton

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

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
Jessamyn West

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
William Butler Yeats

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
Albert Szent

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

I never did very well in math – I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn’t meant my answers literally.
Calvin Trillin

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

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

When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.
Tuli Kupferberg

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

Some stories are true that never happened.
Elie Weisel

It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
Lewis Carroll

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

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

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

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

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

Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
Stephen Leacock

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

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Edgar Allan Poe

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

Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Lewis Carroll

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

Things are only impossible until they’re not.
Jean-Luc Picard