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Imagination Quotes
"Where there is no imagination there is no horror."
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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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"To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination."
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"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius."
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"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination."
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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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"I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination."
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"A closed book will lie there like a dead horse. But an open book will kick, buck, and bolt through perceived adventures like a wild and free stallion. So hold on."
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"Horses frighten me as much as chickens do,' he said.'That is too bad, because lack of communication with horses has impeded human progress,' said Abrenuncio. 'If we ever broke down the barriers, we could produce the centaur."
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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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"The imagination is man's power over nature."
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"Float beyond the world of trees. Out into the whispering breeze, past the rushes, past the weeds, past the marsh's waving reeds."
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"Science does not know its debt to imagination."
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"The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt."
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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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"You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization."
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"Every view, and every object I studied attentively, by viewing them again and again on every side, for I was anxious to make a lasting impression of it on my imagination."
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"One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm."
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"The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society."
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"He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart."
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"The power of imagination makes us infinite."
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"But what is a dream, Conor O'Malley? Who is to say that it is not everything else that is the dream?"
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"This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts."
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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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"War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination."
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"My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived."
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"It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income."
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"If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude... I hope to make you use your imagination."
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"Have you ever pondered the miracle of popcorn? It starts out as a tiny, little, compact kernel with magic trapped inside that when agitated, bursts to create something marvelously desirable. It's sort of like those tiny, little thoughts trapped inside an author's head that-in an excited explosion of words-suddenly become a captivating fairytale!"
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"Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else."
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"Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination."
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"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."
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"Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers."
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"Well, the fact is that one imagination is critically important, and if you have had your imagination stimulated by what is basically a variety of subjects, you are much more amenable to accepting, to understanding and interacting with the realities of the world."
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"It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that."
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"Ellis Peters's historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an actor to acquire a sense of the period. And the other thing I think is that an actor lives in the land of imagination."
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"A daily dose of daydreaming heals the heart, soothes the soul, and strengthens the imagination."
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"Imagine fantasy and pretend as neither fantastical nor pretended.....and then believe it."
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"The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?"
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"When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception."
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"George has only got to ring me. His imagination is so wonderful, I'd do any character he might create."
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"Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction."
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"Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall."
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"For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination."
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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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"Yes, I was correctly quoted in saying I introduced sex into films in the 20's, but it was sex in good taste and left a great deal to one's imagination."
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