My Imagination Quotes

The power of imagination is infinite.

Peter Rabbit, for all its gentle tininess, loudly proclaims that no story is worth the writing, no picture worth the making, if it is not a work of imagination.

Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.

Imagination frames events unknown, In wild, fantastic shapes of hideous ruin, And what it fears creates.

if something is perfect, then there is nothing left,there is no for imagination, no place left for a person to gain additional knowledge or abilities

We invent the past and remember the future.

I'm interested in that hybrid - the place between the real world and my imagination. There's a friction that's created between the things we imagine and the things that exist.

Crossing too many t's and dotting too many i's makes a room look overdone and tiresome. One should create something that fires the imagination without overemphasis.

To travel is very useful, it makes the imagination work, the rest is just delusion and pain. Our journey is entirely imaginary, which is its strength.

The sorrows we imagine are more profound and inconsolable than real life leaves us time for.

To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet's mind, or the painter's, or the scientist's, but of the mind of man.

Imagination is so much harder to face than reality.

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother?

Pop music can get inside us and enter our memory bubbles. It provides those true Proustian moments, unlocking sensations, unlocking our imaginations. Music inspired me as a filmmaker.

Einstein said 'your imagination is more important than intelligence,' and I have a very, very big imagination.

We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived to a great extent in my imagination.

Do not confuse fantasy with imagination; the former consumes itself in daydreaming, the latter stimulates creativity in the arts and in the sciences.

In Rome people seem to love with more zest, murder with more imagination, submit to creative urges more often, and lose the sense of logic more easily than in any other place.

Thoughts are like burning stars, and ideas, they flood, they stretch the universe.

Great leaders communicate a vision that captures the imagination and fires the hearts and minds of those around them.

When Randolph Carter was thirty he lost the key of the gate of dreams.

The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

Once we know something, we find it hard to imagine what it was like not to know it.

The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by the human imagination.

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

They say that none of us exists, except in the imagination of his fellows, other than as an intangible, invisible mentality.

A little bit of one story joins onto an idea from another, and hey presto, . . . not old tales but new ones. Nothing comes from nothing.

It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World's Soul into all of us.

Even our recreation was scheduled. There was no time to look for birds or wander into the nearby woods. We were put into teams and sent into violent pursuit of a helpless ball.

Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me.

Prove to the world that you are alive, let your words breathe life into the nostrils of the universe.

An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic.

Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know.

Brooklyn was a dream. All the things that happened there just couldn't happen. It was all dream stuff. Or was it all real and true and was it that she, Francie, was the dreamer?

Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in.

Truth is a matter of the imagination.

Imagination is a gift given to us from God and each one of us use it differently.

I believe in the goodness of imagination.

Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations.

That's the beginning of magic. Let your imagination run and follow it.

Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Do you know what I think Mayflowers are, Marilla? I think they must be the souls of the flowers that died last summer, and this is their heaven.

Bricks without straw are more easily made than imagination without memories.

We have all lost our possessions and many of us our homes," he said. "But these losses, severe though they may seem, remind us of what no person can take, and that is our minds and our imaginations.

Two thousand years ago, five thousand, they didn't have a word for imagination, and faith was the best they could come up with for a pretty solemn bunch of followers.

The only realism in art is of the imagination.

Religions are not imaginative, not poetic, not soulful. On the contrary, they are parochial, small-minded, niggardly with the human imagination, precisely where science is generous.

After the leaves have fallen, we return To a plain sense of things. It is as if We had come to an end of the imagination, Inanimate in an inert savoir.

Not till the poets among us can be "literalists of the imagination"-above insolence and triviality and can present for inspection, "imaginary gardens with real toads in them." shall we have it.