Few people have the imagination for reality.
We live in worlds that we have forged and composed. It's much more true than any of the species that you see. I mean, it seems to me that one of the most distinctive features of human intelligence is the capacity to imagine, to project out of our own immediate circumstances and to bring to mind things that aren't present here and now.
The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.
The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.
Imagination should be used, not to escape reality but to create it.
I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.
We're a very imaginative species; we're very good at creating fictions.
It fills one with a sense of architectural possibility.
Big thinkers are specialists in creating positive, forward-looking, optimistic pictures in their own minds and in the minds of others.
