Imagination Quotes

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insan...

If you had started doing anything two weeks ago, by today you would have been two weeks better at it...

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

Imagination is the faculty of the mind that God has given us to make the communication of his beauty...

Imagination is the faculty of the mind that God has given us to make the communication of his beauty...

Imagination is the faculty of the mind that God has given us to make the communication of his beauty...

Imagination is the faculty of the mind that God has given us to make the communication of his beauty...

My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.

We see them most when we are o nnthe outside looking in

It doesn't matter if people are playing jazz or writing poetry -- if they want to be successful, the...

...the imagination is unleashed by constraints. You break out of the box by stepping into shackles.

Hope lies in dreams, in imagination and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality...

Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into realit...

So that it must be only by the imagination that Satan has access to the soul, to tempt and delude it...

Every good writer I know needs to go into some deep, quiet place to do work that is fully imagined. ...

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

All theories are legitimate, no matter. What matters is what you do with them.

If you sell, say, two thousand copies, it is the same thing as if you had sold nothing at all becaus...

I imagined a labyrinth of labyrinths, a maze of mazes, a twisting, turning, ever-widening labyrinth ...

We are ignorant of the meaning of the dragon in the same way that we are ignorant of the meaning of ...

I walk in and out of several worlds every day.

Liberty of imagination should be the most precious possession of a novelist. To try voluntarily to d...

The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as the fu...

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, ...

It was not my strength that wanted nursing, it was my imagination that wanted soothing.

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Those for whom the world is not enough: saints, conquerors, poets, and all lovers of books.

The American people want something terse, forcible, picturesque, striking - something that will arre...

I love the process of being taken from where I am to somewhere else.

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.

... every hypothesis is a construction, and because of this it is an authentic theory. In so far as ...

Nine-tenths of that which is attributed to sexuality is the work of our magnificent ability to imagi...

She had horses who were the blue air of the sky.

The virtue of maps, they show what can be done with limited space, they foresee that everything can ...

For the writer, the serial killer is, abstractly, an analogue of the imagination's caprices and amor...

I think the child I was until 12 was so much more interesting than the teenager I became. As a teena...

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by r...

She liked the way the words sounded. She imagined them floating above her in a comic-strip bubble

The growth of the imagination demands windows-windows through which we can look out at the world and...

She always wanted to believe in things.

To Vik Lovell who told me dragons did not exist, then led me to their lairs ...

...I think apparatus burned out all over the ward trying to adjust to her come busting in like she d...

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affect...

I thought to myself how much more welcome a faculty the imagination would be if we could tell when i...

Stunt dwarf or destroy the imagination of a child and you have taken away its chances of success in ...

Imagination has brought mankind through the Dark Ages to its present state of civilization. Imaginat...

To see things as they really were--what an empoverishment!

A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, p...

Imagination is the highest kite that can fly.

The universe has a much greater imagination than we do, which is why the real story of the universe ...

One's writing is good only when the intelligence and the imagination are in equilibrium. As soon as ...

The gift of imagination is by no means an exclusive property of the artist; it is a gift we all shar...

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.

I see nobody on the road,' said Alice'I only wish I had such eyes,' The King remarked in a fretful t...

As a kid, I imagined lots of different scenarios for my life. I would be an astronaut. Maybe a carto...

When imagination fails, compassion and humaneness dwindle and atrophy along with it. Unleavened by i...

I think imagination is at the heart of everything we do. Scientific discoveries couldn't have happen...

Those who fear the imagination condemn it: something childish, they say, something monsterish, misbe...

Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our...

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

It is obvious that an imagined world, however different it may be from the real one, must have somet...

Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.

As inexplicable as the accidents that set it off, our imagination is a crucial privilege. I've tried...

It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every...

I believe that every one of us here tonight has as clear and vital a vocation as anyone in a religio...

It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fa...

When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I ...

Ridicule is a terrible witherer of the flower of imagination. It binds us where we should be free.

I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from a...

My life exists in an imagined reality.

But,instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover,life giv...

The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb t...

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

Let us leave pretty women to men without imagination.

For a young man has strong imagination but poor judgment, so that he imagines others to be as big as...

The wretchedness of ordinary life, endured so gaily when it is part of our normal existence, is made...

It is often simply from lack of creative imagination that we do not go far enough in suffering.

Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.

The sea refreshes our imagination because it does not make us think of human life; yet it rejoices t...

Only imagination and belief can differentiate from the rest certain objects, certain people, and can...

They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it mark...

We can only know what we can truly imagine. Finally what we see comes from ourselves.

Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to ...

The imagination is precious. Don't lose it. Don't lose the child in you.

Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a mor...

The broadest possible exercise of imagination is the thing most conducive to human health, individua...

Why do people resist [engines, bridges, and cities] so? They are symbols and products of the imagina...

Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

They said they would rather be outlaws a year in Sherwood Forest than President of the United States...

You can find in a text whatever you bring, if you will stand between it and the mirror of your imagi...

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

The imagination serves us only when the mind is absolutely free of any prejudice. A single prejudice...

The appeal of perfume is that it is at once ephemeral and empowering. It creates a shimmering invisi...

Imagination is better than a sharp instrument. To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work...

Of course! the path to heavendoesn't lie down in flat miles.It's in the imaginationwith which you pe...