Each tight sequence of 'dots' and 'dashes' is a character of International Morse Code. Early in his life, its originator (Samuel F. B. Morse) was a respected New England portrait painter. One may wonder what he would have thought of this portrait in which he unwittingly collaborated...
QuotaBillsImagination rules the world. - Napoleon
A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination. - Arthur Pinero
Live out of your imagination, not your history. - Stephen R. Covey
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. - H L Mencken
The possible's slow fuse is lit by the imagination. - Emily Dickinson
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. - Jules de Gaultier
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein
With a treehouse and a little imagination, we can go anywhere. - Unknown
The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy. - George R.R. Martin
It is the starved imagination, not the well-nourished, that is afraid. - E.M. Forster
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. - Oscar Wilde
Never say never because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion. - Michael Jordan
Design is about discipline and reality, not about fantasy beyond reality. - Albert Hadley
Where beams of imagination play,
The memory's soft figures melt away. - Alexander Pope
Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it. - Lloyd Alexander
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw
Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life. - Adele Brookman
Like the cosmetics industry, the securities business is engaged in selling illusion. - Paul Samuelson
Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure. - Scott Adams
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. - Irish Murdoch
It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw. - Damien Hirst
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it. - Ursula K. Le Guin
If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth. - William Maxwell
I think Nature's imagination is so much greater than man's, she's never gonna let us relax! - Richard P Feynman
I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villains. - George R.R. Martin
Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The imagination exercises a powerful influence over every act of sense, thought, reason, over every idea. - Latin Proverb
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. - Simone Weil
A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate. - Donald Trump
Fatalism is the creed of a will that is dying to its possibilities and seeks to drag the imagination with it. - Ravi Zacharias
The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of the imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases. - J.W.N. Sullivan
All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable. - Walt Disney
Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. - Terry Pratchett
A dreamer and a thinker understood the value of imagination. He called his imagination a "holy curiosity." - Albert Einstein
The public has an appetite for anything about imagination: anything that is far away from reality as is creatively possible. - Steven Spielberg
Every person on this earth is full of great possibilities that can be realized through imagination, effort, and perseverance. - Scott B Kaufman
The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. - Samuel Johnson
We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die. - W H Auden
When you talk about fantasy, the usual problem is that whilst you've got the world of imagination, there are no controlling forces. - Raymond E. Feist
Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need. - Tom Robbins