All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.