Famous Quotes

"The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure."

Ben Okri 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 Ben Okri

• "Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide."

• "I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people."

• "Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret."

• "The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader."

• "I was born left-handed, but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing 'Famished Road,' which was very long, I got repetitive stress syndrome. My right wrist collapsed, so I started using my left hand. The prose I wrote with my left hand came out denser, so later on I had to change it."