Top 100 Quotes About Imagination
#1. I could spend all day lost in someone else's imagination. I love reading.
Joanna Bolouri
#2. The victories of the imagination involved no risks, and a confrontation with an enemy always ended satisfactorily when both sides of the conversation came from one's own daydreams.
David Eddings
#4. When you use your imagination, it is a bit like putting on night-vision goggles to see forms in the shadows of your head, heart, and spirit.
Deborah Sandella
#5. The thing is you cannot imagine what is going to happen next. If you're imagining it - it's from your imagination.
Art Hochberg
#6. Benedict Allen gives you the impression that he hasn't done any research at all, and I am sure he has. And when he is off doing his ice dogs and that sort of thing - and therefore its not only an exploration of the place but also his imagination in a sense. It's very successful as technique.
John Gimlette
#7. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.
G.K. Chesterton
#8. Can you measure it? Can you express it in figures? Can you make a model of it? If not, your theory is apt to be based more upon imagination than upon knowledge.
Lord Kelvin
#10. In the world of imagination, all things belong.
Richard Hugo
#11. He had married this creature, this figment of the imagination of a million masturbatory men, semen-fingered and self-satisfied.
Gillian Flynn
#12. It's always been pretty easy for me to exercise my imagination. The other part of the brain, the one that does mathematics, is a nightmare for me. It doesn't work at all.
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
#13. To be a writer is to constantly evolve and keep ones imagination expanding and that's what make a great author and artist.
Adona M. Pierre
#14. I never had the financial means that the media said I had. I laugh when I hear the amounts, $400 million, $800 million. Where do they get this imagination?
Jean-Claude Duvalier
#15. Do you imagine
" Mr. Lorry had begun, when Miss Pross took him up short with:
"Never imagine anything. Have no imagination at all."
"I stand corrected; do you suppose
you go so far as to suppose, sometimes?"
"Now and then," said Miss Pross.
Charles Dickens
#16. Your imagination is the vehicle to enlightenment.
Gary Hopkins
#17. Every one who has seriously investigated a novel question, who has really interrogated Nature with a view to a distinct answer, will bear me out in saying that it requires intense and sustained effort of imagination.
George Henry Lewes
#18. Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it's not relating in prose what you've been doing for the last two or three years.
Bret Easton Ellis
#19. The town is an advertisement for itself; none of its charms are left to the visitor's imagination.
Christopher Isherwood
#20. Success is never an accident. It typically starts as imagination, becomes a dream, stimulates a goal, grows into a plan of action - which then inevitably meets with opportunity. Don't get stuck along the way.
Dan Miller
#21. I love our shared island, our shared Ireland and its core decency. I love it for its imagination and its celebration of the endless possibilities for our people.
Michael D. Higgins
#22. But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there.
Roger McGuinn
#23. But,instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover,life gives us something that we could hardly imagine.
Marcel Proust
#24. He'd told me the world could be the most lovely place you could imagine, so long as your imagination was fueled by love.
Sebastien De Castell
#25. All acting is an act of imagination. You are simply conjuring up imaginary circumstances in your mind and responding truthfully to them.
Tom Hiddleston
#26. The birds and I share a natural history. It is a matter of rootedness, of living inside a place for so long that the mind and imagination fuse.
Terry Tempest Williams
#27. Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.
Jasper Fforde
#28. There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.
Jean Giraudoux
#29. Must not a poet hunt the unicorn through bush and bramble, through snow and fire, over desert and mountain, through thickets and over long barren roads even though he suspects sometimes that the unicorn does not exist- or exists only in his imagination?
May Sarton
#30. I like to see films that come out with lower budgets because you're forced into using your imagination. You don't have everything at your fingertips. You have to create it from scratch.
Heath Ledger
#31. As opposed to putting too much confidence in myself, or in an image or a scene or a set of brushes, I really want to allow the oil paint to perform, to show me the things that it wants to do, beyond my imagination.
Dan Colen
#32. We let what we know limit what we can imagine; the result, a failure of imagination.
Keith Ferrazzi
#33. What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, 'Oh, what this really is is so-and-so,' reducing it to a simple formula.
Doris Lessing
#34. We take our fetters with us; our freedom is not total: we still turn our gaze towards the things we have left behind; our imagination is full of them.
Michel De Montaigne
#36. Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.
Helen Rowland
#37. The great task demanded of man is reproduction. He is urged by passion to perform this task. Passion, working through the imagination, produces love. Passion is the impelling factor, imagination the disturbing factor; and the disturbance of passion by imagination produces love.
Jack London
#38. My childhood was pretty ordinary, except from a very early age, I wanted to be scared. I just did. I was scared afterwards. I wanted a light on, because I was scared that there was something in the closet. My imagination was very active, even at a young age.
Stephen King
#39. Filth and vermin though they shock the over-nice are imperfections of the flesh closely related in the just imagination of the poet to excessive cleanliness.
William Carlos Williams
#40. The daring leader helps the people see a future state, greater than their own imagination, and worthy of pursuit.
Cheryl A. Bachelder
#41. Movement, after all, seemed futile to him. He felt that imagination could easily be substituted for the vulgar realities of things. It was possible, in his opinion, to gratify the most extravagant, absurd desires by a subtle subterfuge, by a slight modification of the object of one's wishes.
Joris-Karl Huysmans
#42. Clearly, there has been a lack of imagination about how much can go wrong.
Rachel Maddow
#43. The power of imagination is incredible. Often we see athletes achieving unbelievable results and wonder how they did it. One of the tools they use is visualization or mental imagery ... they made the choice to create their destinies and visualized their achievements before they ultimately succeeded.
George Kohlrieser
#44. The imagination is the voyage of our thoughts in the endless ocean of the mind that searches for the splendid beaches of happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#45. I am pretty scare-able. I guess that is why I like doing horror because my imagination can take me places.
Annabeth Gish
#47. An inventor is he whose thoughts and imagination become things of reality by creative action.
Debasish Mridha
#48. Imagination is highly suspect. Reality is what is beautiful. But we are blind to it because it is familiar.
Mal Peet
#49. Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.
Rob Bell
#50. The wines are Saccone and Speed,' he had said. It was a merchant's observation. He had meant that even there, in the centre of Africa, the wine had come from the shippers on our east coast, and not from the people on the other side. But in my imagination I allowed the words to stand for pure bliss.
V.S. Naipaul
#51. Imagination pointed toward truth but could not disclose it directly.
Philip Zaleski
#52. You're crazy as hell - but you're my crazy. I want to live in that head of yours. I want to hear about the crazy things you conjure up in that imagination of yours.
Rachel Van Dyken
#53. Think of humanity and you see an idea, and think idea and you see imagination, and imagination is everything guys n gals
Steve Merrick
#54. Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.
Terry Pratchett
#55. My small torrent of words dissipated into an elaborate sense of expanding and receding. It was my entrance into the radiance of imagination.
Patti Smith
#56. What I'm looking for is a self-promoting film; a movie which immediately gets people's imagination is something I can promote - a project which writes its own publicity.
Jeremy Thomas
#57. This whole universe, with all its vastness, grandeur and beauty, is nothing but sheer imagination. In spite of so many discoveries, researches and scientific knowledge, the creation remains a great unsolved riddle.
Meher Baba
#58. The Phantom Menace is not a masterpiece, but it's an example of how imagination, craftsmanship, and technological bravura can fashion superior entertainment out of something that is far from flawless.
James Berardinelli
#59. I don't like that sort of school ... where the bright childish imagination is utterly discouraged ... where I have never seen among the pupils, whether boys or girls, anything but little parrots and small calculating machines.
Charles Dickens
#60. All the powers of imagination combine in hypochondria.
Mason Cooley
#61. A man wants to see a woman as an angel of imagination, but a woman wants to prove that she is a person.
Debasish Mridha
#62. The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination.
Adam Smith
#63. I think cinema is the memory and the imagination of the country. Take the memory and imagination out of an individual, and he stops being an individual. I think it's the same thing for a country.
Philippe Falardeau
#64. Microsoft's only factory asset is the human imagination.
Bill Gates
#65. Art is the extended arm of your imagination, The feast of inspiration for your muse. Art isn't just creativity, its a way of life.
Sarah Curran
#66. Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.
Baruch Spinoza
#67. My creative powers have been reduced to a restless indolence. I cannot be idle, yet I cannot seem to do anything either. I have no imagination, no more feeling for nature, and reading has become repugnant to me. When we are robbed of ourselves, we are robbed of everything.
Sally Brampton
#68. Psychosis is a gross disturbance in an individual's ability to distinguish self from reality. For schizophrenics, the membrane between imagination and reality is so porous that having an idea and having an experience are not particularly different.
Andrew Solomon
#69. A little imagination goes a long way in Fes.
Tahir Shah
#70. He could no longer be that Ed Larsen, but, through a lack of imagination or just sheer exhaustion, he couldn't come up with a new one, and faked his way through the days like a bad actor ...
Stewart O'Nan
#71. After watching too many scary movies it was hard not to have an overactive imagination, along with an inherent distrust of seemingly benevolent (and sometimes inanimate) things, like lawn gnomes.
Kat Stiles
#72. A nice adaptation of conditions will make almost any hypothesis agree with the phenomena. This will please the imagination but does not advance our knowledge.
Joseph Black
#73. There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.
William Godwin
#74. 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.
Mick Jagger
#75. When dragged into prominence by half poets, the result is not poetry, nor till the poets among us can be "literalists of the imagination"
above insolence and triviality and can present for inspection, "imaginary gardens with real toads in them," shall we have it.
Marianne Moore
#76. Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein
Deborah Brodie
#77. I like to work with young people because young people haven't had their dreams kicked out of them yet. They're full of confidence and imagination and vision and when they score, that all get's empowered.
Nicolas Cage
#78. Yet we cannot live our daily lives in a realm of pure ideas, cocooned from sense-experience. The question is not, How can we keep the imagination pure, protected from the onslaughts of reality? The question has to be, Can we find a way for the two to coexist?
J.M. Coetzee
#79. Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
Walt Disney Company
#80. The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages Pt.1, 41
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#81. The power of imagination created the illusion that my vision went much farther than the naked eye could actually see.
Nelson Mandela
#82. With multimedia, everything blurs. Software takes the concept of the imagination and makes it something you can edit, tweak, and transform with digital techniques. Everything becomes an edited file.
DJ Spooky
#83. In my imagination yes, I remember, when I was six years old, I was conducting all this concert in my house. But now it's real.
Gustavo Dudamel
#84. Men as yet need some help to their imagination. There remains still room for a little illusion. It is better for men, it is better for women, that each somewhat idealize the other. Much is lost when life has lost its atmosphere, and is reduced to naked fact.
Mary Abigail Dodge
#85. There are no days in life that are so memorable as those that vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#86. My influences change all the time; they have to remain current, because they're the things that capture your imagination and make you want to go into the studio.
Wayne McGregor
#87. How do we not rue the many unchosen paths in life? A blessed lack of imagination. There are enough real glories along any path to swamp our meager ability to picture alternatives.
Terry Rossio
#89. 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?
Cesare Pavese
#90. The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.
Bryant H. McGill
#91. We differ, blind and seeing, one from another, not in our senses, but in the use we make of them, in the imagination and courage with which we seek wisdom beyond all senses.
Helen Keller
#92. Those who are clever in imagination are far more pleased with themselves than prudent men could reasonably be.
Blaise Pascal
#93. The way to be invisible - is to truly be imaginary. But since you cannot imagine yourself, you have to clone your imagination into being an image of yourself. Imagine that.
Will Advise
#94. It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw.
Damien Hirst
#95. The most powerful forces in the universe are infinite. Love, imagination, intuition, stillness. Then why should we define our soul?
Matthew Donnelly
#96. Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the other as by their own imagination. They are always wooing goddesses, and marrying mere mortals.
Washington Irving
#97. When we were filming 'The Darkest Hour,' we didn't even know what the aliens were going to look like, we didn't even have a graphic reference. So it was definitely a big challenge to sell those kind of extreme moments when you're just generating them from your own imagination.
Olivia Thirlby
#99. Nothing is more admirable, than the readiness, with which the imagination suggests its ideas, and presents them at the very instant, in which they become necessary or useful.
David Hume
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