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The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all
compact.
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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when
they can see nothing but sea.
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Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh,
the thinks you can think up if only you try!
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Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and
they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
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The creative person is both more primitive and more
cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than
the average person.
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There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the
clouds.
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A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man
contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
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There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy
concept.
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To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover,
and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.
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Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland
than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
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When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word -
religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
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Anyone who can be replaced by a machine deserves to be.
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Really we create nothing. We merely plagiarize nature.
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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational
exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh,
the thinks you can think up if only you try! Oh, the thinks you
can think up if only you try!
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
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The difference between intelligence and education is this:
intelligence will make you a good living.
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I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him
free.
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Some stories are true that never happened.
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They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which
escape those who dream only by night.
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Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of
our real life.
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Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.
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