Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
-Jules Verne
Quotations
Imagination
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 Exupéry
"Flight to Arras"
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
-Pablo Picasso
Imagination is a quality given to a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humour is provided to console him for what he is.
-Oscar Wilde
Those who do not think outside the box are easily contained.
-Anonymous
I think I’m an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy; those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist.
-Susan Sarandon "Susan Sarandon"
The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
-Oscar Wilde
Sometimes the soul takes pictures of things it has wished for, but never seen.
-Anne Sexton
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
-Anaïs Nin
I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.
-Orhan Pamuk
