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Einstein:Imagination is more important than knowledge. Francis Bacon:Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is. Edouard Manet:It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more. John Keats:My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
Rousseau:“The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless. Aeshop:The level of our success is limited only by our imagination. Mozart:Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Renoir:“If you paint the leaf on a tree without using a model, your imagination will only supply you with a few leaves; but Nature offers you millions, all on the same tree. No two leaves are exactly the same. The artist who paints only what is in his mind must very soon repeat himself.” de Sade,Marquis:Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
Maria Kallas:An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.
Simone Weil:Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
Voltaire:Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
Nabokov:A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.
Jane Austen:A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
Samuel Johnson:The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. Immanuel Kant:Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
Vinci da Leonardo:Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
Napoleon:“Imagination governs the world.”
Walt Disney:Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
Seneca:We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
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