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