Imagination, Dreams & Creativity

Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.

~ George Scialabba

This world is but a canvas to our imaginations. ~ Henry David Thoreau

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

When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge. ~ Tuli Kupferberg

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

I can believe anything provided it is incredible. ~ Oscar Wilde

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

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
~Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night

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

Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
~ Howard Thurman

Miracles and Imagination ~ Albert Einstein

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Creativity

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creatve mind plays with the objects it loves. ~ C. G. Jung

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. ~ Pablo Picasso