Science does not know its debt to imagination.

A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.

Alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.

Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house, and speaks the best part of the oration.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the worl…

I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, …

I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, t…