Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Imagination tends to be truly useful if accompanied by the power of mental control - if the worlds in one's head can be purposefully manipulated and distinguished from the real one outside it.
I have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It's just a characteristic.
You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.
Most organizations do not value imagination, do not encourage it, do not reward it. In many cases, they don't even think about it. But if you're not thinking about imagination, I guarantee you're not going to have meaningful innovation.
Imagination is Reality Lite - a useful substitute when the real pleasure is inaccessible, too risky, or too much work.
Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.
We've lost these qualities, these abilities to do something by hand. Some illustrators have it still, but it's just not art. We have photography. We have cameras and computers that do it better and faster.
Possessing a healthy imagination is a necessary ingredient for creativity.
Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.
No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.