Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.
He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.
In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.
Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.
