Imagine That

Trust that little voice in your head that says
"Wouldn't it be interesting if...";
And then do it.
Duane Michals

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

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
Orison Swett Marden

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
Jessamyn West

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells.

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living,

it's a way of looking at life through
the wrong end of a telescope.

Which is what I do, and that enables you
to laugh at life's realities.
Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss)

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

Imagination rules the world.
Napoleon Bonaparte

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

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

Live out of your imagination,
not your history.
Stephen Covey

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

If everyone is thinking alike,

then somebody isn't thinking.
George S. Patton

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

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

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

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

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

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