"Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous."

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"Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous."

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"One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way."

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"The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others."

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"The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore."

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"Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy."

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"Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well."

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"The man who has no imagination has no wings."

Muhammad Ali, American Athlete

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"Science does not know its debt to imagination."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination."

Edward Abbey, American Author

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"Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute."

Franklin P. Adams, American Journalist

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"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"

Douglas Adams, English Writer

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"My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived."

John Adams, American President

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"Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed."

Joseph Addison, English Writer

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"I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings."

Thomas Bailey Aldrich, American Poet

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"The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older."

Chris Van Allsburg, American Author

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"At first, I see pictures of a story in my mind. Then creating the story comes from asking questions of myself. I guess you might call it the 'what if - what then' approach to writing and illustration."

Chris Van Allsburg, American Author

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