Imagination Quotes

My love is my soul's imagination... how do I love you... imagine.

Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking tartar sauce with you.

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

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.

Literature as a whole is not an aggregate of exhibits with red and blue ribbons attached to them, like a cat-show, but the range of articulate human imagination as it extends from the height of imaginative heaven to the depth of imaginative hell.

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

Go to where the silence is and say something.

The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after the death of the vegetated [i.e. mortal] body. This world of imagination is infinite and eternal, whereas the world of generation is finite and temporal. There exist in that eternal world the eternal realities of everything which we see reflected in this vegetable glass of nature.

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

We suffer more in imagination than in reality.

Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory.

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.

Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.

Imagination is a gift given to us from God and each one of us use it differently.

Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...'; And then do it.

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.

When common objects in this way be come charged with the suggestion of horror, they stimulate the imagination far more than things of unusual appearance; and these bushes, crowding huddled about us, assumed for me in the darkness a bizarre grotesquerie of appearance that lent to them somehow the aspect of purposeful and living creatures. Their very ordinariness, I felt, masked what was malignant and hostile to us.

The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination.

Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all.

The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.

What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine.

Why, when you have a mental disease, is it always considered an act of imagination? Why is it that every organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy except the brain?

We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.

The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

The imagination is man's power over nature.

What you contemplate, you touch. What you enter into in imagination, you make yourself one with.

... people made the imaginary real all the time: taking the music they heard in their head and recording it, seeing a house in their imagination and building it. Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

You have a curious way of arousing one's imagination, stimulating all one's nerves, and making one's pulses beat faster. You put an aureole on vice, provided only if it is honest. Your ideal is a daring courtesan of genius. Oh, you are the kind of man who will corrupt a woman to her very last fiber.

Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance.

It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.

All of us invent ourselves. Some of us just have more imagination than others.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.

All human accomplishment has this same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy? Imagination, imagination, imagination! It converts to actual. It sustains, it alters, it redeems!

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.

Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.

Beauty is found in anything that delights the senses, nourishes the soul, fires the imagination.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

The more you know, the more you can create. There's no end to imagination in the kitchen.

No writing is a waste of time – no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work. With every sentence you write, you have learned something. It has done you good.

Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.

I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum

There are and will be those who think I have gone overboard. Let them rest assured that this assessment is correct, probably beyond their wildest imagination, and that I will continue to do so.

It is the childlike part of us that produces works of the imagination. When we were children time passed so slow with us that we seemed to have time for everything.

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

Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.

Now it is quite clear to me that there are no solid spheres in the heavens, and those that have been devised by the authors to save the appearances, exist only in the imagination.

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

We all live best in our imaginations.

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.

If for every error and every act of incompetence one can substitute an act of treason, many points of fascinating interpretation are open to the paranoid imagination.

Eroticism is mystique; that is, the aura of emotion and imagination around sex. It cannot be 'fixed' by codes of social or moral convenience, whether from the political left or right. For nature's fascism is greater than that of any society. There is a daemonic instability in sexual relations that we may have to accept.

As I see it, life is an effort to grip before they slip through one's fingers and slide into oblivion, the startling, the ghastly or the blindingly exquisite fish of the imagination before they whip away on the endless current and are lost for ever in oblivion's black ocean.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - myth is more potent than history - dreams are more powerful than facts - hope always triumphs over experience - laughter is the cure for grief - love is stronger than death

Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible.

If you paint the leaf on a tree without using a model, your imagination will only supply you with a few leaves; but Nature offers you millions, all on the same tree. No two leaves are exactly the same. The artist who paints only what is in his mind must very soon repeat himself.

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.

Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.

The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.

Everything can happen, everything is possible and probable. Time and place do not exist; on a significant bases of reality, the imagination spins, weaving new patterns; a mixture of memories, experiences, free fancies, incongruities and improvisations.

Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination.

Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.

Nothing can be more limiting to the imagination than only writing about what you know

Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself.

People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom, or their lack of imagination

Somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.

It's always more intriguing to imagine what's happening, as opposed to seeing everything, because then you can use your imagination. I always wanted to be at a distance.

The eternal gulf between being and idea can only be bridged by the rainbow of imagination.

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

The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.

In the world of words the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.

The main fuel to speed the world's progress is our stock of knowledge, and the brake is our lack of imagination.

Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw.

The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.

The machine will grind you down, but the machine is not bigger than the imagination. Rome fell in a day. We know this.

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see,Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.

There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.

Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

Zero invites imagination, but small numbers invite questions about whether large numbers will ever materialize.

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit

What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.

Boredom comes simply from ignorance and lack of imagination.

There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.

The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage. How can you create a character without live and the struggle that goes with love?

They say that none of us exists, except in the imagination of his fellows, other than as an intangible, invisible mentality.

Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

The wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you

Since childhood I'd been suspected of imagination

To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.

The talent for self-justification is surely the finest flower of human evolution, the greatest achievement of the human brain. When it comes to justifying actions, every human being acquires the intelligence of an Einstein, the imagination of a Shakespeare, and the subtlety of a Jesuit.

An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

There are no shortcuts in life - only those we imagine.

Only in your imagination can you revise.

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

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'

Bricks without straw are more easily made than imagination without memories.

I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.

To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination

Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.

The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.

All that you can imagine you already know.

You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'

Imagination creates reality.

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

Even the wildest dreams have to start somewhere. Allow yourself the time and space to let your mind wander and your imagination fly.

Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.

I have lived to see that being seventeen is no protection against becoming seventy, but to know this needs the experience of a lifetime, for no imagination copes with 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.

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

If you believe, then you hang on. If you believe, it means you've got imagination, you don't need stuff thrown out on a blueprint, and don't face facts-what can stop you? If I don't make it today, I'll come in tomorrow.

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.

By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.

The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.

Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.

I think my imagination dictates the technologies I use. But at the same time, my imagination can be technologic. Sometimes I see a tool and I know immediately how to use it, but most of the time I use the tool for an idea I already have.

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.

Imagination rules the world.

The imagination made us human, but being human, becoming more human, is a greater burden than we imagined. We have no choice but to imagine ourselves more human than we are.

Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.

Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.

The worst advice a young writer can get is "Write what you know." Imagination is more important than experience.

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

It was the year Frankie thought about the world. And she did not see it as a round school globe, with the countries neat and different-colored. She thought of the world as huge and cracked and looseand turning a thousand miles an hour.

To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.

A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination.

I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature.

The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.

Upgrading one's imagination about what is possible is always a leap of faith.

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

Everybody in their own imagination decides what scary is.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.

It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination... If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldnt believe the world existed.

The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

The ecstatic state of wholeness is bound to be transient because it has no part in the total pattern of ‘adaptation through maladaptation’ which is characteristic of our species…the hunger of imagination, the desire and pursuit of the whole, take origin from the realization that something is missing, from awareness of incompleteness.

People who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.

The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.

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

When I'm judging a theory, I ask myself whether, if I were God, I would have arranged the world in such a way.

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse of life, we are governed by whim, caprice, prejudice, or accident. The falling of a teacup puts us out of temper for the day; and a quarrel that commenced about the pattern of a gown may end only with our lives.

Doubts and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

The power of imagination created the illusion that my vision went much farther than the naked eye could actually see.

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.

To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery —even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness —is to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself. Imagination alone offers me some intimation of what can be.

I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.

The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.

Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality.

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.

Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. This is quite opposite to our own natural tendency which is to anticipate reality by imagining it, or to flee from it by idealizing it. That is why we shall never inhabit true fiction we are condemned to the imaginary and nostalgia for the future.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match.

Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success on the stage.

It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?

Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.

Begin to imagine what the desirable outcome would be like. Go over these mental pictures and delineate details and refinements. Play them over and over to yourself.

The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

Imagination took the reins, and reason, slow-paced, though sure-footed, was unequal to a race with so eccentric and flighty a companion.

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future

Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self- interest, you can have practically anything you go after.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.

The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.