What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.

Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.