Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.

The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.

I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be.

I don't want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also.

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