Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

Quote by Tom Stoppard

Topics: Imagination Quotes, Skill Quotes

The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.

The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.

Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't...

Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't...

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Pirates could happen to anyone.

Pirates could happen to anyone.

Life in a box is better than no life at all ... I expect.

Life in a box is better than no life at all ... I expect.

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from...

A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from...

We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks...

We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks...

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the...

Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the...

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it...

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it...

The truth is always a compound of two half-truths, and you never reach it, because...

The truth is always a compound of two half-truths, and you never reach it, because...

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.

My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.

Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over......

Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over......

It's better to be quotable than to be honest.

It's better to be quotable than to be honest.

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a...

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a...

Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.

Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.

Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?

Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?