We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

I love a lot of the New York bands but Patti Smith stands out. I just read 'Just Kids' and it's an inspirational well-written account of an emerging New York artist in the late seventies.

I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings stretch my imagination earn money.

The capacity you're thinking of is imagination without it there can be no understanding indeed no fiction.

There's not one major greatest influence on my career. It would be film and great artists and great imagineers - Jim Henson Walt Disney Charlie Chaplin people who understand the joy of the imagination.

Many Nobel Prizes are awaiting good research to understand and explain the many mysteries of our bodies such as the basic mechanism of memory or imagination.

It will take some time before a politician will capture the imagination of the American people and have the vision and understanding to do what is necessary for a better future for the people of America and the world.

Well the fact is that one imagination is critically important and if you have had your imagination stimulated by what is basically a variety of subjects you are much more amenable to accepting to understanding and interacting with the realities of the world.

It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination so that we can understand the sufferings of others.

What I really have in my head my imagination my understanding of music I never really get that out.

My imagination my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time how passion can surprise and renew utterly failed me.

You can understand nothing about art particularly modern art if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

Talent lying in the understanding is often inherited genius being the action of reason or imagination rarely or never.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination rarely.

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination nature is imagination itself.