The Imagination Quotes

... a lively imagination can exercise itself most fully and creatively in conjuring up magnificent combinations.

I admit to having an imagination feverish enough to melt good judgment.

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.

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.

Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Try drawing or painting a scene you're working on. Often this will help free up you imagination.

The intellectual imagination! With me all or not at all. NON SERVIAM!

A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.

Imagination is our ability to see inwardly and picture there that which has not yet appeared outwardly. Imagination is God's gift to us.

If you can read and have more imagination than a doorknob, what need do you have for a 'movie version' of a novel?

It isn’t a big jump in the imagination to see yourself living alone like Mr Hoppy.

The imagination, give it the least license, dives deeper and soars higher than Nature goes.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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?

Imagination is so much harder to face than reality.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

We invent the past and remember the future.

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

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

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

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.

The power of imagination is infinite.

Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

The foolhardy are not necessarily stupid, for fools simply follow their imagination whereas the stupid have none.

No man can avail himself of the forces of his creative imagination, while dissipating them.

my mind is a world in itself, which I have peopled with my own creatures.

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

War…next to love, has most captured the world’s imagination

Imagination without skill gives us contemporary art.

Imagination is a powerful deceiver.

Imagination is like the drunk man who lost his watch and must get drunk again to find it.

The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own.

The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.

Whatever laudable qualities the English may possess in their selection, preparation, and consumption of food, elegance, originality, diversity, and imagination are not among them.

I'm not into that whole Satanic thing. It's just something to fall back on if you don't have much imagination. Singing you fiftieth song about having lunch with Satan--I'm not into it. It's silly.

I grew up knowing I could have had a million different lives. It makes your life mysterious and your imagination go wild.

Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.

But I know also that still more interesting discoveries will be made that I have not the imagination to describe - and I am awaiting them, full of curiosity and enthusiasm.

The same big TV antenna dwarfed each roof, as though life here could only be bearable if lived elsewhere in the imagination.

The imagination is the liberty of the mind It is intrpeid and eager and the extreme of its achievement lies in abstraction.

Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.

Our imagination just needs space. It's all it needs, that moment where you just sort of stare into the distance where your brain gets to sort of somehow rise up.