Hallway Detour

Photographing a cake can be art. - Irving Penn

Imagination is the eye of the soul. - Joseph Joubert

Art is the signature of civilizations. - Beverly Sills

Any idealism is a proper subject for art. - Lafcadio Hearn

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

The power of imagination makes us infinite. - John Muir

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. - Jonathan Swift

We have art to save ourselves from the truth. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. - John Gardner

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity. - Douglas Horton

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. - H L Mencken

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. - Thomas Edison

He who has imagination without learning, has wings and no feet. - Joseph Joubert

Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years. - Sheila Ballantyne

Out of suffering comes creativity. You cannot spell painting without pain. - John Lithgow

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache. - Catherine the Great

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. - Samuel Butler

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions. - Albert Einstein

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul. - George Bernard Shaw

John Wooden was a hall of fame character long before he was a hall of fame coach. - John C Maxwell

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them. - Bernard M Baruch

Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life. - Adele Brookman

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers. - James Baldwin

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying. - Oscar Wilde

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient, whilst Mother Nature takes care of the cure. - Voltaire

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

A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate. - Donald Trump

A dreamer and a thinker understood the value of imagination. He called his imagination a "holy curiosity." - Albert Einstein

The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy. - Lionel Trilling

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

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

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen. - Pablo Picasso

No sign of pleasure greeted the announcement. The mood in the hall was leaden.
My mood was livelier. Fright is livelier than lead. - Gail Carson Levine

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need. - Sara Teasdale

Art owes its origin to nature. This beautiful creation supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence. - Giorgio Vasari

Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't imagine what it might be. - Joyce Carol Oates

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. - C S Lewis

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable. - Carl Jung

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words. - Franz Liszt