“No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.”

— Edward Hopper

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prominent American realist painter and printmaker 1882–1967

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Bleeds

“Donner: 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 (1937) British playwright

Source: Artist Descending a Staircase (1972)

“The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.”

Bernard Crick (1929–2008) British political theorist and democratic socialist

Source: In Defence Of Politics (Second Edition) – 1981, Chapter 7, In Praise Of Politics, p. 143.

“Common elements of creativity are originality and imagination. Creativity is intertwined with the freedom to design, to invent and to dream. In engineering and science a creative idea is useful only if it meets three conditions: the constraint of the natural laws, the constraint of cost, and the constraint of technical feasibility.”

Martin Lewis Perl (1927–2014) American scientist

Essay on Creativity in Science and Engineering

“It is only by the amplification of titles that you can often touch and satisfy the imagination of nations; and that is an element which Governments must not despise.”

Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister

Speech https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1876/mar/09/second-reading-1 in the House of Commons (9 March 1876) on the Royal Titles Act that bestowed on Queen Victoria the title "Empress of India".
1870s

“Instict to dare and courage to fight: essential elements in a woman to love.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Istinto per osare e coraggio per lottare: elementi essenziali in una donna da amare.
Source: prevale.net

“The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning, but imagination.”

Augustus De Morgan (1806–1871) British mathematician, philosopher and university teacher (1806-1871)

Quoted in Robert Perceval Graves, The Life of Sir William Rowan Hamilton, Vol. 3 (1889), p. 219.

“You replaced me with a shaved poodle?”

“He’s got mad skills.”

Derek’s eyebrows crept up.

“He can vomit and urinate at the same time and he doesn’t make fun of my car.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Bleeds

“All that the Malays can do is run the police force and the army…. They are not fitted even to the lowlier mechanical skills, such as car maintenance. They are essentially a people who have been pulled out of the kampongs into the towns, and the town in Malaysia seems essentially a Chinese creation….”

Anthony Burgess (1917–1993) English writer

Non-Fiction, Homage to QWERT YUIOP: Selected Journalism 1978-1985 (1986)

“All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don't, our lives get made up for us by other people.”

Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) American writer

The Operating Instructions in The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination (2004)

“No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.”

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