Famous Quotes

"A place makes a deep impression on you when you're young. It lives with you. It's like your childhood. It fertilises the imagination."

Richard Eyre on Imagination

More quotes about Imagination

• "Imagination is more important than knowledge."

  Albert Einstein on Imagination

• "I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities."

  Dr. Seuss on Imagination

• "Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions."

  Albert Einstein on Imagination

• "I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty."

  Albert Einstein on Imagination

• "Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?"

  Sun Tzu on Imagination

More quotes by Richard Eyre

• "The principle of acting in good faith is at the heart of decent work."

• "The arts are weapons of understanding and weapons of happiness."

• "I envy the happiness of others... I envy the sense of belonging... I seem always to be remaking myself."

• "I believe there is a relationship between having an interest in the arts and the behaviour of society as a whole. Some politicians find it difficult that the arts is a weapon of happiness... Politics is often about deprivation rather than the opening up of ideas and nourishing creative endeavour."

• "Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives."