The Imagination Quotes

I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.

Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.

People said, ‘You must be mad, or on drugs,’ which I found a bit disappointing. What about imagination? It reflects our time that people sooner assume you’re on drugs or mad, rather than free.

To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the mother of all art and the source of all its beauty.

Imagination is like a lofty building reared to meet the sky; whereas fancy is a balloon that soars at the wind's will.

Boundary lines, of any type, are never found in the real world itself, but only in the imagination of the mapmakers.

Sunflowers are like people to me.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.

Drawing is exercise for a restless imagination.

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination.

A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

That we may merge into the deep and dazzling darkness, vanish into it, dissolve in it forever in an unbelievable bliss beyond imagination, for absolute nothingness represents absolute bliss.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

Everything great that ever happened in this world happened first in somebody’s imagination.

The man who succeeds must always in mind or imagination live, move, think, and act as if he had gained that success, or he never will gain it.

Every man's world picture is and always remains a construct of his mind and cannot be proved to have any other existence.

Democracy is the most demanding of all forms of government in terms of the energy, imagination, and public spirit required of the individual.

Imagination is as effortless as perception, unless we think it might be ‘wrong’, which is what our education encourages us to believe.

My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.

We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.

Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.

Despair shows us the limit of our imagination. Imaginations shared create collaboration, collaboration creates community, and community inspires social change.

Nothing matters more to AA's future welfare than the manner in which we use the colossus of modern communication. Used unselfishly and well, it can produce results surpassing our present imagination.

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their flight.

I love being involved in all of the creative stuff; I love talking ideas with directors. Anyone with an imagination can create something fun.

If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination.

There are no limitations, unless you create them yourselves. Anything is possible. You are only limited by your own imagination.

Reality is for people that lack imagination.

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

Normality is a fine ideal for those who have no imagination.

The scariest, most terrifying thing that I fear? Yes. My Imagination. I thought you were going to say "Fear, itself." Then you have a small imagination.

It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.

On the stem of memory imaginations blossom.

There is nothing more important than developing your imagination to transform your life from the inside world of your thoughts and feelings to the outside world of your results and manifestations.

Authors do not supply imaginations, they expect their readers to have their own, and to use it

What the world of tomorrow will be like is greatly dependent on the power of imagination in those who are learning to read today.

Logic can take you from point A to point B. Imagination can take you wherever you want

There is nothing beginning nor end to the imagination but it delights in its own seasons reversing the usual order at will.

Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn't work.

Both art and faith are dependent on imagination; both are ventures into the unknown.

Life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.

When you become the image of your own imagination, it's the most powerful thing you could ever do.

Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom.

For me, its always a failure of the imagination. I have that anxiety that time is passing, that everything is ultimately fleeting and impermanent. I better take advantage of every single moment.