The foundations of the world are to be found, not in the cognitive experience of conscious thought, but in the aesthetic experience of everyday life.

Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts. It is a way of illuminating the facts.

From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.

After you understand about the sun and the stars and the rotation of the earth, you may still miss the radiance of the sunset.

But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure, a sense of nothing having been done before, of complete freedom to experiment.

The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.