The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Imagination
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
-George Smith Patton
"War as I Knew It"
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
-G. K. Chesterton
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
Everything you can imagine is real.
-Pablo Picasso
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
-Joseph Joubert
Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
-Jules Verne
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-Mark Twain
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
-Henry David Thoreau
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
-Pablo Picasso
