The Imagination Quotes

Part of the creative process for me is an invitation for readers to follow their imagination.

All gardeners need to know when to accept something wonderful and unexpected, taking no credit except for letting it be.

Women have much more heart and much more imagination than men; hence, fancy often allures them.

Hope sinks a world of imagination.

RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience.

Imagination needs food like every dog and every cat and every bird and every fish.

Artistic imagination must remain free. It is by definition free from any fidelity to circumstances, especially to the intoxicating circumstances of history.

Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship.

When you're playing Shakespeare, it forces you to think and feel and speak all at the same time, which really is what acting is. It expands your imagination and expands your size of thinking.

I didn't have the patience for the research, or anything like that. I just like how it sets the imagination off. It's just an area that's very fertile for great words. Great metaphors, potentially.

Loving our own children is an exercise for the imagination.

Now let's get talking: reefer madness. Like some arrogant government can't, By any stretch of the imagination, outlaw a plant.

Is imagination dependent upon experience, or is experience influenced by imagination?

Using your imagination is the one time in life you can really go anywhere.

I'm filled with admiration, delight, and gratitude at discovering James Lasdun's poems in A Jump Start. He has wit, speed, intelligence, a keen eye, precision, and imagination of a high order.

Imagination, whatever may be said to the contrary, will always hold a place in history, as truth does in romance. Has not romance been penned with history in view?

There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror.

It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?

If my future were black, it was better surely to face it like a man than to attempt to brighten it by mere will-o’-the-wisps of the imagination.

The revolution cannot be funded. It's not the imagination of trusts and foundations that's going to bring real change.

Any programming language is at its best before it is implemented and used. Anything is possible, anything can happen. On a flimsy ground of reality, imagination spins marvelous patterns.

Fiction writing is an act of imagination, lived experience is secondary in many ways, writing a novel really is all about inventing worlds and people.

All of us, writers and non-writers alike, have incredible well-springs of personal experience and history. And we also have imagination - which I think is a kind of human miracle.

I have a recurring fantasy that one more article has been added to the Bill of Rights: the right to free access to imagination.

Imagination is what has driven human progress since very early times.

Imagination needs to be fed.

The greatest poet who ever wrote about rowing is Virgil, the greatest historian is Thucydides, but the greatest imagination ever to turn its attention to the sport is that of painter, Thomas Eakins.

Your name?” I repeated, hoping it was my imagination that my voice faltered. “Call me Patch. I mean it. Call me

Life is amazingly unpredictable; any 22-year-old who thinks they know where they will be in 10 years, much less in 30, is simply lacking imagination.

I think that one thing fiction can offer, and must offer, is a place where someone's mind and their imagination can come to rest for a little while.

The student of Liberty must constantly endeavor to disassociate his imagination from sanguinary dramas of assassination and revolt.

I'll confess right here that I secretly wish I'd have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination.

So scary watching the news...Like Iraq...could ever under any stretch of the imagination be any threat to us whatsoever.

Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood.

Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it makes them happy, as against reason, which only makes its friends wretched: one covers them with glory, the other with shame.

The imagination enlarges little objects so as to fill our souls with a fantastic estimate; and, with rash insolence, it belittles the great to its own measure, as when talking of God.

Who dispenses reputation? Who makes us respect and revere persons, works, laws, the great? Who but this faculty of imagination? All the riches of the earth are inadequate without its approval.

Imagination is the greatest nation in the world!

[H]istorians have powerful imaginations, which are essential and dangerous.

I was never a big reader as a kid. My imagination wasn't captured by books very often. It was captured more often by boys and partying and riding horses.

I was very attracted to the way that Zen did not go into the imagination land. And now I've forgotten what your first question was and how we were going to tie this together.

Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it's not relating in prose what you've been doing for the last two or three years.

It's hard being quiet when one's imagination is so loud

Anything imagined can be made real ... given sufficient genius.

The appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You're only limited by your imagination.

The initial motivation of the experiment which led to this discovery was a subconscious feeling for the inexhaustible wealth of nature, a wealth that goes far beyond the imagination of man.

There are all sorts of topics and themes that just recur time and time again, which either means people have less imagination or that people never get bored of them... or both!

You people have no imagination!

Only a group lack of imagination could account for people not wondering what went on in the dark around them.

Comme l'imagination a cre e le monde, elle le gouverne. Because imagination created the world, it governs it.