Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. Tom Stoppard
I can't satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as an art form as much as it used to be. Marilyn Manson
No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination. Edward Hopper
He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart. Washington Irving
One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet. Joseph Joubert
Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever. Noam Chomsky
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. Lauren Bacall
The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible. Steven Spielberg
Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination. Lily Tomlin
Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and workers who hone their skills and offer their labor. Paul Ryan
True change takes place in the imagination. Thomas Moore
I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea. H. G. Wells
Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else. Vivien Leigh
Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination. Edward Abbey
It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative? Cesare Pavese
When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception. Emile Coue
The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted. Aesop
It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory. Edgar Degas
Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon. Terry Brooks