The Imagination Quotes
The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.
Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. Remy de Gourmont An idea is salvation by imagination
I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.
An educational foundation is only part of the equation. In order for creativity to flourish and imagination to take hold, we also need to expose our children to the arts from a very young age.
Peellaert's comic strips were the literature of intelligence, imagination and romanticism.
Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.
I surrender to the world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.
The universe has a much greater imagination than we do, which is why the real story of the universe is far more interesting than any of the fairy tales we have invented to describe it.
It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
Our dreams prove that to imagine - to dream about things that have not happened - is among mankind's deepest needs.
Upgrading one's imagination about what is possible is always a leap of faith.
Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.
We live our thoughts and manifest them in our attitudes toward ourselves and others. We cannot live beyond our thoughts and convictions.
I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.
It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing for certain is that there are fairies wherever there are children.
Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.
Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.
Stunt dwarf or destroy the imagination of a child and you have taken away its chances of success in life. Imagination transforms the commonplace into the great and creates the new out of the old.
The Japanese, if I understand them, are masters of the unsaid and the unstated, of subtlety and ambiguity, all of which constitute powerful stimulants to the imagination.
If you can read and have more imagination than a doorknob, what need do you have for a 'movie version' of a novel?
Imagination is our ability to see inwardly and picture there that which has not yet appeared outwardly. Imagination is God's gift to us.
Try drawing or painting a scene you're working on. Often this will help free up you imagination.
It is more important to let a child's imagination develop than it is to labor to inculcate in him or her some correct ethical point of view.
And one of the things that I've always loves about children is their vivid, unrestrained, and far-reaching imaginations - the depth and breadth of their creativity.
... a lively imagination can exercise itself most fully and creatively in conjuring up magnificent combinations.
Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.
The imagination is a spiritual apparatus. Unable to invent the world, it does the next best thing, and that is to assemble it piecemeal, ugly and strange, bright and clear, and dumbly discovered.
I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination
The illusion of magic is an idealistic fantasy; it exists only in the imagination of the spectator.
As a rule, indeed, grown-up people are fairly correct on matters of fact; it is in the higher gift of imagination that they are so sadly to seek.
I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman.
Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.
What we have is a crisis of imagination. Albert Einstein said that you cannot solve a problem with the same mind-set that created it.
Soft focus is an important skill that can effect us metaphorically. In other words, the way we see the future has everything to do with how well we can look up and see the expanded horizon before us.
The real giants have always been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas.
Poetry must speak of others, in order to speak for the poet's imagination, in order to speak of itself; it is slowed down by poetics after its flight is over.
Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there.
Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process; yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole.