Ken Robinson Quotes

Imagination is the beginning of reality.

Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness.

Everything, at first, is an idea, a special creation.

Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.

Man is an imagining being.

People seem to have trouble with the imagination. They can't believe that you can just pull things out of your brain like that.

Therefore, when we arrive in a place and talk to new people about a new image, it is very hard for them to visualize it. That's where the drawings are very important, because at least we can show a projection of what we believe it will look like.

Only in your imagination can you revise.

If you can imagine a thing, conjure it up in space then you can make it... The universe is real but you can't see it. You have to imagine it. Then you can be realistic about reproducing it.

To think is first of all to create a world (or to limit one's own world, which comes to the same thing).

The universe is real, but you can't see it. You have to imagine it.

The more we see the more we must be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

Much of what we see in the universe ... starts out as imaginary. Often you must imagine something before you can come to terms with it.

Thought maps existence; fantasy colors it.

Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world.

Whatever happens in the world is real, what one thinks should have happened is projection. We suffer more from our fictitious illusion and expectations of reality.

I want to do nothing chic, I want to have ideas before beginning a piece.

A concept is stronger than a fact.

There are some things that are real, that you can see, that you can observe, like the moon, and grass and things. But for ideas to become real, they have to be played on your senses.

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

Imagination decides everything.

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Visualization is daydreaming with a purpose.

I like the creative aspect of developing a project.