Famous Quotes

"What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness second, their imagination, and third, their industry."

Salman Rushdie 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 Salman Rushdie

• "The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes."

• "If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up."

• "Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall."

• "What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist."

• "Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms."