Hallway Detour

The man with no imagination has no wings. - Muhammad Ali

What is this, an audience or an oil painting? - Milton Berle

Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist. - Paul Gauguin

The art of government is the organization of idolatry. - George Bernard Shaw

An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination. - George Bernard Shaw

The art of communication is the language of leadership. - James Humes

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art. - F Scott Fitzgerald

Botany: The art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

There are certain things you just don't do in fantasy. - J K Rowling

Art is the demonstration that the ordinary is extraordinary. - Amedee Ozenfant

The Possible's slow fuse is lit
By the Imagination. - Emily Dickinson

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. - Miguel de Unamuno

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure. - Dale Carnegie

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. - Mechelangelo di Lodovico

Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between. - David Letterman

The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy. - George R.R. Martin

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish. - Minna Antrim

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates. - Oscar Wilde

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. - Oscar Wilde

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing. - Ralph Richardson

Man either goes forward in imagination or remains imprisoned in his senses. - Unknown

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you. - Oscar Wilde

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. - Voltaire

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity. - Andre Gide

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. - Carl Sagan

There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons. - Fred Saberhagen

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. - Salvador Dali

That's what storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again. - Walt Disney

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything. - Plato

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable. - Walt Disney

Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. - Gloria Steinem

One supreme fact which I have discovered is that it is not willpower but imagination that creates. Imagination creates reality. - Richard Wagner

We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. - Pablo Picasso

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination. - Edmund Burke

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is. - Horace Walpole

My imagination persisted in sticking horrors into the dark- so I stuck my imagination into the dark instead, and let it look out at me. - F Scott Fitzgerald

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. - Andre Gide

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