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Imagination Quotes
"To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful."
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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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"Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess."
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"How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child."
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"Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels."
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"By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment."
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"I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be."
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"The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport."
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"We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark."
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"For what is magic, but passion freed from reason?"
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"I have enough love to last me a lifetime! Thank God I'll never lose my imagination and my passion. That's really what it is. I'm still passionate about what I do."
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"Fiction is necessary to life - not only as books but as dreams, dreams that frame the world and give it meaning."
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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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"The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination."
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"One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet."
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"Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future."
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"Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe."
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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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"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."
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"Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!"
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"To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind."
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"In The Touch, the love scenes are the same as they were in The Thorn Birds or anything else I've ever written. I find a way of saying that either it was heaven or hell but in a way that still leaves room for the reader to use their own imagination."
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"We must all allow ourselves the fantasy of projection from time to time, a chance to clothe ourselves in the imaginary gowns and tails of what has never been and never will be. This gives some polish to our tarnished lives, and sometimes we may choose one dream over another, and in the choosing find some respite from ordinary sadness. After all, we, none of us, can ever untangle the knot of fictions that make up that wobbly thing we call a self."
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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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"I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive."
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"Never give up the freeness of your soul. Live your duty to mankind, nurture creatures of this world as a true mother of the earth, but never shut your imagination off from those desires that distinguish you from the ordinary. Never allow yourself to be sapped of that extraordinary energy that is the necessary ingredient for creating something new and progressive."
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"Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself."
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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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"You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination."
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"The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability."
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"It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination."
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"He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts."
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"He wanders, like a day-appearing dream,Through the dim wildernesses of the mind; Through desert woods and tracts, which seem Like ocean, homeless, boundless, unconfined."
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"Azdaha were no joke. ... Not much is known about this dragon [the aforementioned Gandarw], except that he apparently had yellow heels. I wonder why that was such an important detail. I mean if I were describing Godzilla, the color of his heels wouldn't be the first thing I would mention."
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"A book had always been a door to another world... a world much more interesting and fantastical than reality. But she had finally discovered that life could be even more wonderful than fantasy.And that love could fill the real world with magic."
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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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"If there weren't so many interesting conversations taking place inside my head, I might venture to speak out loud."
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"A little imagination goes a long way in Fes."
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"In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature."
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"My parents thought it was nice to develop my imagination, but they never seriously thought that anything would ever come of it. They said that I couldn't be an actress because I would be taller than all my leading men, so I thought I would be a writer instead."
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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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"Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure."
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"He brought imagination to the story of the Creation."
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"Imagination is but another name for super intelligence."
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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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"Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination."
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