The Imagination Quotes

Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.

It is only through imagination that men become aware of what the world might be; without it, ‘progress’ would become mechanical and trivial.

For me, couture is the kingdom of imagination, creativity and experimentation, and this is how I approach it. I do, however, remain pragmatic and realistic.

A place is a story, and stories are geography, and empathy is first of all an act of imagination, a storyteller's art, and then a way of traveling from here to there.

Without the definiteness of sculpture and painting, music is, for that very reason, far more suggestive. Like Milton's Eve, an outline, an impulse, is furnished, and the imagination does the rest.

The world is about the way in which our dreams intersect with our real life. Endlessly, the world of the imagination changes the world.

If the imagination is to transcend and transform experience it has to question, to challenge, to conceive of alternatives, perhaps to the very life you are living at the moment.

Music is about imagination. It's about thought. It's about creating something from nothing.

I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you.

An imaginative adventure does not enjoy the same corsets as reportage.

There is an inverse relationship between imagination and money.

That youthful fervor, which is sometimes called enthusiasm, but which is a heat of imagination subsequently discovered to be inconsistent with the experience of actual life.

In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their appeal.

The mathematician's best work is art, a high perfect art, as daring as the most secret dreams of imagination, clear and limpid. Mathematical genius and artistic genius touch one another.

I've never really had much of an imagination. But still I would try to picture the exact moment when the beating of my heart would no longer be going on inside my head.

Some people have vivid imagination, some not so vivid, but everybody has vivid dreams.

Every powerful movement has had its philosophy which has gripped the mind, fired the imagination and captured the devotion of its adherents.

If we nourish imagination, we nourish everything else.

The Mathematics are Friends to Religion; inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of Imagination, and purge the Mind from Error and Prejudice.

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.

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.

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.

The imagination of a eunuch dwells more and longer upon the material of love than that of man or woman ... supplying, so far as he can, by speculation, the place of pleasures he can no longer enjoy.

Only imagination that towers can reproduce evanescence and render rigidity flexible.

The only realism in art is of the imagination.

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.

How do we know imagination isn't just a different way of knowing something? A message from outside.

The impact of space activities is nothing less than the galvanizing of hope and imagination for human life continuum into a future of infinite possibility.

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.

The spirit's there and that's not just my imagination. I think if you look at surveys and attitudes among young people, you see it.

We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.

Man's relations to man do not captivate my fancy. It is man's relation to the cosmos--to the unknown--which alone arouses in me the spark of creative imagination.

The inhibitor of creativity isn't potential it's fear. We worry about saying the wrong thing or looking foolish so we govern our imagination.

We should endeavor practically in our lives to correct all the defects which our imagination detects.

This was no ordinary UFO. Scores of people saw it. It was no illusion, no deception, no imagination.

The game I play is a very interesting one. It's imagination, in a tight straightjacket.

It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income.

In revision, your imagination becomes deeply engaged with your material. It's when you come to know your characters and begin to perceive their motivations and values.

Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained

What is an idol? It is anything more important to you than God, anything that absorbs your heart and imagination more than God, anything you seek to give you what only God can give.

It is here [in mathematics] that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination.

Modernism is the protein of our cultural imagination.

Nothing too long imagined can be perfect in a wordly way.

Every afternoon, I was in the pasture with cattle or fishing and shooting my BB gun. That kind of freedom allows imagination to develop.

An idea is our visual reaction to something seen - in real life, in our memory, in our imagination, in our dreams.

It's really important that, as women, we tell our stories. That is what helps seed our imaginations.

There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.

SPOOKER, n. A writer whose imagination concerns itself with supernatural phenomena, especially in the doings of spooks.

Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.