"Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding." ― Thomas Carlyle Topic(s): Art Tags: imagination, matter More From Thomas Carlyle "No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men." "What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books." "Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against." More In Art "The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure."― Dale Carnegie "Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness."― Jerry Saltz "When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect."― Jackie Chan