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Imagination Quotes
"Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination."
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"But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?"
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"Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn't a very talented writer, but his imagination was wonderful."
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"Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't."
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"Dreams are our only geography-our native land."
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"Where there is no imagination there is no horror."
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"The costume that I wear on the show is a little snug and doesn't leave a whole lot to the imagination. I don't have a problem with it because of the way this character's been written."
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"I wouldn't say that I've had a tough life by any stretch of the imagination."
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"But the greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out. You want the listener to find the song on their own. If you give too much away, it takes away from the imagination."
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"I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination."
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"This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts."
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"One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap."
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"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."
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"Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination."
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"Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination."
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"People know that they're going to see something which is entertaining but challenging as well because of the form it's in. It's dance theatre and it requires you to use your imagination - it's not straight forward."
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"For what is magic, but passion freed from reason?"
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"Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times."
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"If they want to talk about aliens and anything like that... that's part of the gift God gave us. That's what makes life exciting. We're pretty stuck, you know. What gives flight to our life is our imagination."
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"Human thought, flying on the trapezes of the star-filled universe, with mathematics stretched beneath, was like an acrobat working with a net but suddenly noticing that in reality there is no net."
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"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."
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"Recounting the strange is like telling one's dreams: one can communicate the events of a dream, but not the emotional content, the way that a dream can colour one's entire day."
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"Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination."
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"I don't think that people should wear dresses two sizes too small. I just think that sexiness is better left to the imagination. It's just more tasteful."
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"Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world."
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"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."
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"A child who has never fantasized about having other parents is seriously lacking in imagination."
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"Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things."
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"We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark."
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"When I was on my own in a hotel room in Romania, I had the imagination to keep myself occupied."
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"For me, my travels have been the chance to go to a place that already exists in my imagination."
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"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."
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"The streetlight outside my house shines on tonight and I'm watching it like it could give me a vision. James ain't talked ever and he looks at that streetlight like it was a word and maybe like it was a verb. James wanted to streetlight me and make me bright and beautiful so all the moths and bats would circle me like I was the center of the world an held secrets."
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"Thinking of the stars night after night I begin to realize 'The stars are words' and all the innumerable worlds in the Milky Way are words, and so is this world too. And I realize that no matter where I am, whether in a little room full of thought, or in this endless universe of stars and mountains, it's all in my mind."
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"I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about."
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"When you're young you have no worries, no drama, only your imagination. It's the best!"
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"Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination."
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"The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture."
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"America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand."
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"My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people, you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people."
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"The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination."
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"The power of imagination makes us infinite."
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"It's a great excuse and luxury, having a job and blaming it for your inability to do your own art. When you don't have to work, you are left with the horror of facing your own lack of imagination and your own emptiness. A devastating possibility when finally time is your own."
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"Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain."
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