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Tom Stoppard

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

Tom Stoppard

Imagination

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Having skill but lacking imagination leads to creating practical but ordinary things, like wickerwork picnic baskets. On the other hand, having imagination without the ability to execute it well results in creations like modern art, which may be conceptually interesting but lack technical refinement.

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