Tom Shakespeare

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to. It doesn’t so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven’t had that, what have you had?

Henry James

The great rule: if the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.

Georg Lichtenberg

Don’t for heaven’s sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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 object it loves.

Carl Jung

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Painters and poets have always had an equal right to dare whatever they please.

Cennino Cennini

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Oscar Wilde

It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.

Charles Dickens

As the eye, so the object.

William Blake