I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. - Pablo Picasso

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. - Jack London

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. - G.K. Chesterton

Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life. - Simone Weil

Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica. - Stephen Leacock

Sometimes imagination pounces; mostly it sleeps soundly in the corner, purring. - Leslie Grimutter

Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence. - Norman Podhoretz

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. - Edgar Allan Poe, "Eleonora"

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. - Joseph Joubert

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. - Lewis Carroll

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams