"All the good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow."
(Grant Wood)

"Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark."
(Anne Dillard)

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
(Albert Einstein)

"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 Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991)

"Imagination is the highest kite one can fly."
(Lauren Bacall, American actress)

"It's a mental universe which he commands by virtue of the calm and the lack of compromise which is inherent in it. This lack of compromise can be perceived as inhuman."
(Baard Owe, on Carl Dreyer)

"Oh, we can populate the dark with horrors, even we who think ourselves informed and sure, beliving nothing we cannot measure or weigh."
(John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley)

"Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning."
(Clive Staples Lewis)

"The more vivid your imagination, the more dangerous the world becomes."
(Matthew Lotti)

"These are days when no one should rely unduly on his "competence." Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed."
(Walter Benjamin)

"This world is but a canvas to our imagination."
(Henry David Thoreau)

"What makes us human is our capability to imagine, to cast ourselves as the heroes in the mental adventures of our own design. When one stops dreaming one might as well die, for there is nothing for which living is more worthy than one's imagination."
(Odie Henderson, from an online chat, 11-25-2001)