The Imagination Quotes
The severest test of work today, is not of our strategies, but of our imaginations and identities.
A pioneer should have imagination, should be able to enjoy the idea of things more than the things themselves.
It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.
The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man.
I suppose an active imagination can be a form of madness. Or it can be the thing that keeps you from going mad.
You are a creator. You create with your every thought...anything you can imagine is yours to be, do or have.
Every day, through engagement in the arts, our children learn to open their imagination, to dream just a little bigger and to strive every day to reach those dreams.
Isn't it awful that cold feet make for a cold imagination and that a pair of woollen socks induce good thoughts!
Illusion throughout is illusion. There is no end to it, just as there is no end to imagination.
The historian has before him a jigsaw puzzle from which many pieces have disappeared. These gaps can be filled only by his imagination.
A shiver runs down your spine when you realize it is not our imagination. Something is watching us out there.
...whoever you are, not matter how lonely the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh & exciting - over & over announcing your place in the family of things.
But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire; the future estate for which men drudge up city alleys exists already in their imagination and love.
I am absorbed in the magic of movement and light. Movement never lies. It is the magic of what I call the outer space of the imagination.
Well, no doubt it's a blessed thing to have an imagination that can always make you satisfied, no matter how you are fixed.
Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world.
The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.
Use your imagination and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care.
...a distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man's imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection.
There's a great fear of the imagination. It's a dangerous thing. It's out of control, it's subversive.
He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
If there's something more awaiting me in the future, I'd rather leave it up to God since what He creates is far better than my imagination.
Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination; it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with other men an escape from reality, but the means by which he accedes to it.
Thus hope, aided by imagination, makes one man a hero, another a somnambulist, and a third a lunatic; while it renders them all enthusiasts.
The failure of modern living is the failure of the imagination...Literature is the royal road that enables us to enter the realm of the imagination.
The great end of all arts is to make an impression on the imagination and the feeling. The imitation of nature frequently does this. Sometimes it fails and something else succeeds.
To write and not tell the truth? That would be death for any writer. But more, it would be death to the imagination. And if the imagination dies, what would happen to the souls of children?
I understand abstract art as an attempt to feed imagination with a world built through the basic sensations of the eyes.
Childhood, catching our imagination when it is fresh and tender, never lets go of us.
Godzilla. The big, green G-man has had a profound influence on my creative endeavors and imagination since I was blueberry-avoiding kid.
Half of my heart's got a real good imagination, half of my heart's got you. . .Half of my hearts got a right mind to tell you that half of my heart won't do.
Imagination is the gatekeeper of the human soul.
The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
The Subconscious mind can not tell the difference between what's real and what's imagined.
Thus man of all creatures is more than a creature, he is also a creator. Man alone can direct his success mechanism by the use of imagination, or imaging ability.
Imagination though it cannot wipe out the sting of remorse can instruct the mind in its proper uses.
The universe is full of men going through the same motions in the same surroundings, but carrying within themselves, and projecting around them, universes as mutually remote as the constellations.
I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.
You will get little or nothing from the printed page if you bring it nothing but your eye.