Each tight sequence of 'dots' and 'dashes' is a character of International Morse Code. Early in his life, its originator (Samuel F. B. Morse) was a respected New England portrait painter. One may wonder what he would have thought of this portrait in which he unwittingly collaborated...
QuotaBillsImagination is intelligence having fun. - George Scialabra
Inflation: everyone's illusion of wealth - Unknown
Before imagination can flow, you must let go. - Unknown
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. - H L Mencken
The possible's slow fuse is lit by the imagination. - Emily Dickinson
An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination. - George Bernard Shaw
Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one. - Terry Pratchett
The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination. - George Bernard Shaw
If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion. - Noam Chomsky
I've always enjoyed living in a fantasy world, daydreaming. - James Duval
I'm not a passive person by any stretch of the imagination. - Courteney Cox
It is the starved imagination, not the well-nourished, that is afraid. - E.M. Forster
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. - Mark Twain
Where beams of imagination play,
The memory's soft figures melt away. - Alexander Pope
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. - John Dewey
Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it. - Lloyd Alexander
Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy. - Walt Disney
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions. - Albert Einstein
Like the cosmetics industry, the securities business is engaged in selling illusion. - Paul Samuelson
Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in. - Truman Capote
Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure. - Scott Adams
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. - Carl Sagan
I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination. - Cornelia Funke
Such a figure, that imagination cannot form an idea of a fury from hell, to look more frightful. - Charles Johnson
Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination. - Ernest Hemingway
Our fears are more numerous than our dangers, and we suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth. - William Maxwell
What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet. - Woody Allen
I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villains. - George R.R. Martin
The imagination exercises a powerful influence over every act of sense, thought, reason, over every idea. - Latin Proverb
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination. - Carl Jung
All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable. - Walt Disney
Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination. - Tim Robbins
The public has an appetite for anything about imagination: anything that is far away from reality as is creatively possible. - Steven Spielberg
Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. - Gloria Steinem
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
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
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
Stretching the capabilities of my imagination is a crucial aspect of writing fiction; you could think of it as a mental form of athleticism. - Julia Glass
Fantasy has a dark side to it. It also has a light hemisphere - the power of the human imagination to keep going, to imagine a better tomorrow. - Tim O'Brien