„He seemed only a poor clod like those around him, deluded by a childish theology, full of an almost pathological hatred of all learning, all human dignity, all beauty, all fine and noble things. He was a peasant come home to the dung-pile. Imagine a gentleman, and you have imagined everything that he was not.“

— H.L. Mencken

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„To invent something, all you need is imagination and a big pile of junk.“
— Albert Einstein
„Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.“
— Ernest Hemingway
„Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty — he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world — alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche
„You may have killed God beneath the weight of all that you have said; but don't imagine that, with all that you are saying, you will make a man that will live longer than he.“
— Michel Foucault