The Imagination Quotes

Dance form is logical, but it is all in the realm of feeling, sensitivity and imagination.

When man tries to imagine Paradise on earth, the immediate result is a very respectable Hell.

Go to where the silence is and say something.

My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

There is more pain from holding on to the thought of pain than there is in the situation itself. If you let the world strike you, it will do so less cruelly than your own imagination.

Anybody can do anything that he imagines.

Do unto others as they wish, but with imagination.

It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.

To get such beauty from something that has been produced from the artist's own imagination appealed to me enormously.

Imagination and faith are the secrets of creation.

If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is described but what we see, seldom will anything truly great be produced either in Painting or Poetry

Creativity grows out of two things: curiosity & imagination.

The future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create.

To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.

Your imagination, my dear fellow, is worth more than you imagine.

Anything seems possible at night when the rest of the world has gone to sleep.

I mainly let my imagination be my reality. Fantasy is my reality.

Everyone has his own imagination of God. It is best if everyone is left to his own imagination.

We especially need imagination in science. Question everything.

Where knowledge ends... feeling and imagination begin.

Imagination is nothing more than sensory states. Learn to go beyond an idea by feeling its reality.

Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive.

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

Imagination means nothing without doing.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

They [formulae 1.10 - 1.12 of Ramanujan] must be true because, if they were not true, no one would have had the imagination to invent them.

Use your imagination until your big dream feels so familiar that its manifestation is the next logical step.

Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few.

I’ve always thought that each person invented himself… that we are each a figment of our own imagination. And some people have a greater ability to imagine than others.

There's nothing like a shipwreck to spark the imagination of everyone who was not on that specific ship.

In your own bosom you bear your heaven and earth, And all you behold, though it appears without, It is within, in your imagination, Of which this world of mortality is but a shadow.

Each of us has an Aladdin's Lamp which psychologists call creative imagination.

The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.

Love what you do and do what you love. Don't listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life.

I'll tell you this: You have to remember to chase and catch your dreams, because if you don't, your imagination will live in empty spaces, and that's nowhere land.

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

I see songwriting as having to do with experience, and the more you've experienced, the better it is. But it has to be tempered, and you just must let your imagination run.

Camus says in 'The Stranger' that reason is the enemy of imagination. Sometimes you have to put reason aside and make something beautiful.

The gift of imagination is by no means an exclusive property of the artist; it is a gift we all share; to some degree or other all of us, all of you, are endowed with the powers of fantasy.

Our responsibility begins with our imagination.

Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.

We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing.

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Learn to see and to feel life; that is, cultivate imagination, because there are still marvels in the world, because life is a mystery and always will be. But be aware of it.

Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you'll be free if you truly wish to be.