Imagination

Imagination

• “You call that a sunset?” said a woman to the painter William Turner as she looked at one of his paintings. “I never saw a sunset like that.”  Turner replied, “Don’t you wish you had?”

• Imagination is a very precise thing, you know—it is not fantasy; the man who invented the wheel while he was observing another man walking. That is imagination! — Jacques Lipchitz

• Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. — Swift

• I shut my eyes in order to see. — Paul Gauguin

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

• The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen. — Valery

• 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.  — Emily Dickenson

• A garden I tend whose blossom never existed. — Pablo Neruda

• Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. — Jessamyn West