Imagination is more important than knowledge...

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Memory feeds imagination.

Amy Tan (1952 - )

So you see, imagination needs moodling - long, inefficient¹, happy idling, dawdling² and puttering.

Brenda Ueland

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

Charles F. Kettering (1876 - 1958)

An idea is salvation³ by imagination.

Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

Choosing to live in narrow spaces leads to form of mental agoraphobia and that brings its own terrors. I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters, they are often more afraid. What is more, those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright⁴ evil ourselves, we collude through our own apathy⁵.

J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and, therefore, the foundation of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and relevetory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. We have the power to imagine better.

J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gaultier

But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.

L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908

You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Everything you can imagine is real.

Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)

There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.

Sean O'Faolain (1900 - 1991)

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship⁶ and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), "Artist Descending a Staircase"