Quotes About Using Your Imagination

#1. If you're using your imagination, you tend to look into the past for ideas.

Paul McCartney

#2. I see all these people talking about acting as a great spiritual thing. It's not. There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do, but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.

Eddie Marsan

#3. 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

#4. Prose fiction is something you build up from twenty-six letters and a handful of punctuation marks, and you, and you alone, using your imagination, create a world, and people it and look out through other eyes.

Neil Gaiman

#5. When you spend time worrying, you're simply using your imagination to create things you don't want.

Shannon L. Alder

#6. The mere act of dreaming is a vitalizing, life-affirming endeavor. As it turns out, using your imagination is very, very good for your wellbeing. Einstein believed that imagination was even more important than knowledge itself.

Danielle LaPorte

#7. I've studied a technique called the Sanford Miesner technique, that teaches you how to focus. It's mainly about daydreaming. And the technique's really about imaginary circumstances. Using your imagination to sort of daydream about stuff. It makes you emotional in a scene.

Sam Rockwell

#8. Everyone has creative potential. Creativity involves using your imagination and inventiveness. Your unique expression of yourself is your creativity...Creativity can be magic when visiting people who are ill.

Patch Adams

#9. You can keep your mind open and use your imagination and be creative even when you're older. For kids, I definitely think keeping your mind open and using your imagination and being able to play pretend and that it's okay.

AnnaSophia Robb

#10. Using your imagination means that you are using your most powerful tool of creation, manifestation and modification

Dorothy Holder

#11. Worrying is using your imagination to create something you don't want.

Esther Hicks

#12. Using your imagination is the one time in life you can really go anywhere.

Ann Patchett

#13. They say using your imagination makes you live longer.

John Corey Whaley

#14. I'm not writing non-fiction. I don't feel anything about me as a kid was unique. Except that I had more interest in being alone and using my imagination.

John Irving

#15. It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today.

Michael Apted

#16. As a dreamer, you're inevitably called to dream yourself awake using the full resources of your imagination and heart. You may have buried or repressed your season of insight, but it happened, and now you are irrevocably changed.

Carolyn Elliott

#17. Reducing and reusing take nothing more than a rethink on the way we shop, and using our imagination with the things that we might once have considered junk.

Sheherazade Goldsmith

#18. What is the use of having an imagination if you can't make it work for you?

Carolyn Wells

#19. If we want young people to develop the habits of thinking for themselves, using their imagination, being open to new ideas, saying when they don't understand, and exploring real challenges together, then they have to see their teachers doing the same thing.

Guy Claxton

#20. Have you ever seen any member of radiohead aside from me in public? Do they interact or 'lift' objects? Holograms, all of them. I created them in 1991 using my massive brainpower. Even pitchforkmedia is a product of my brilliant imagination.

Thom Yorke

#21. In order to move our self image higher on the spectrum of performance, we must specifically attack our self-talking and our self-thinking? By using constructive imagination - the eye of faith - we can change our self image.

Hyrum W. Smith

#22. Using one's imagination to the fullest is necessary for a happy life.

Claire Trevor

#23. Storytelling is all about using the imagination, for me at least it is. That's why I'm bored sometimes to see movies. I'm bored to see TV. I never see TV. I see news sometimes. I'm sorry to say, I work in this business and I love working in it, but I haven't seen a movie in so many years.

Peter Stormare

#24. I love using my imagination. I love writing about animals.

Mary Pope Osborne

#25. These [Arab] youth who have been inspired by universal values are idealistic enough to imagine a magnificent future and, at the same time, realistic enough to balance this kind of imagination and the process leading to it - not using violence, not trying to create chaos.

Wadah Khanfar

#26. A great artist paints a picture on the canvas of his mind using the colors of his love and imagination before transferring the image onto a real canvas.

Debasish Mridha

#27. For novelists, the imagination is everything. The trick is to guide one's imagination using research. I love using old maps. When I wrote my novels on London and New York, I found wonderful historical atlases. Paris has the most lavish maps of all.

Edward Rutherfurd

#28. I love roles that don't really have a template or a paradigm and force me to create using my own imagination ... that really, really turns me on.

J. August Richards

#29. I believe that it's an author's job to cast his imagination into the far spaces. Your life should - and I think it's inescapable that it will - inform your work. I'm all for using anything that can make your art better, but your intuition should be an equal partner.

Brent Weeks

#30. Never stop your child from using their imagination and having fantasies, as they could become the next great author.
~ D.L. Bates

Dennis Lee Bates Jr.

#31. If one draws things in a manner which provides only the barest clue to their meaning, the viewer is forced to fill in the gaps by using his own imagination. He is compelled to participate in the creative act, which I consider very important.

Antoni Tapies

#32. Intelligence guided by the will using memory and imagination assisted by intuition.

Romana Kryzanowska

#33. The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that as scaffolding, and then letting imagination build the structure that fills in those things we can never find out for sure.

Geraldine Brooks

#34. The main purpose of my work is to provoke people into using their imagination and make their surroundings more exciting.

Verner Panton

#35. 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.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

#36. People may think I'm trying something new by telling stories, but they're just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But really, I just continue using my imagination and creating. That's what I do.

Steven Wright

#37. Exploit a subject or a theme to its greatest potential by bringing all possible reference to bear - then put aside the reference and create again using the potential of your unfettered imagination.

Robert Genn

#38. And being alone made me want to talk to someone my own age. Someone who understood that using the "f" word wasn't a measure of my lack of imagination. Sometimes using that word just made me feel free.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#39. Creativity is the power to reject the past, to change the status quo, and to seek new potential. Simply put, aside from using one's imagination - perhaps more importantly - creativity is the power to act.

Ai Weiwei

#40. We can attract almost anything by using our imagination. All we need to do is to hold the picture of desires/dreams in our mind and focus on it as it blends with emotions that are of higher vibrations.

Hina Hashmi

#41. Teachers' using grades and the fear of failure mould the brains of the young until they have lost every ounce of imagination they might once have possessed.

Paul Karl Feyerabend

#42. Father, Please forgive me for anything that my eyes have seen that defiled me or offended you. Please forgive me for using my imagination for wrong purposes and make it clean now by the blood of Jesus. Cleanse me and heal me now and I thank you for it in Jesus' name. Amen.

Michael Van Vlymen

#43. Using my imagination and creativity is exciting to me.

Jan De Bont