"I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them."

"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere."

"The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact."

"To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted."

"I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally."

"I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see."

"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."

"When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge."

"Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica."

"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."