Imagination Quotations

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.

I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

The best vision is insight.

You have to really use your imagination to refresh your daily life.

Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.

I have a darker imagination than most people.

Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.

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.

The most important thing a pastor does is stand in a pulpit every Sunday and say, 'Let us worship God.' If that ceases to be the primary thing I do in terms of my energy, my imagination, and the way I structure my life, then I no longer function as a pastor.

For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.

Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe.

I was a terrible athlete and a pretty bad student. I couldn't focus. My imagination was always racing.

There are no shortcuts in life - only those we imagine.

The most important innovators often don't need any technologies - just imagination and acute sensitivity to people's needs.

I work in whatever medium likes me at the moment.

Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them.

Even tiny children looking at a picture book are using their imaginations, gleaning clues from the images to understand what is happening, and perhaps using the throwaway details which the illustrator includes to add their own elements to the story.

You never quite know what's going to strike your imagination, or something that won't going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and this was one for me.

I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.

I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construction of the monster and usually that's in the world of the supernatural or the world of the fantastic, so that's why those kinds of stories about demons and the supernatural appeal to me or maybe I'm really interested in that subject.

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.

Imagination is a beast that has to be put in a cage.

A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.

The scientists often have more unfettered imaginations than current philosophers do. Relativity theory came as a complete surprise to philosophers, and so did quantum mechanics, and so did other things.

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.

Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.

I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose.

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.

I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.

I sort of jumped out of movies and into the lifeboat of comics. I loved it right away. It was the opposite of film school. Whatever was in my imagination could end up in the finished product. There were just no limitations.

Ultimately it's a leap of faith and a leap of imagination to put yourself back in time into those conditions and situations and see how you would react.

My imagination completely controls me, and forever feeds the fire that burns with dark red light in my heart by bringing me the best dreams. I've always had a wild imagination, a big heart and a tortured soul so I feel that dark fantasy, love and horror are in my blood.

Well, I think that - I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.

Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.

I had a very happy childhood, but I still used my imagination as a leisure resort.

By no stretch of the imagination can you describe me as a Wall Street lawyer. If you're going to do that, you'd have to say that 7,500 people who work here in Southwestern Pennsylvania for the Bank of New York Mellon with good family jobs are Wall Streeters.

If you don't have imagination, you stop being human; animals don't have imagination; Alzheimer's is the death of imagination.

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit

If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling, filled with imagination and with appetite for the new and with respect for the old - somebody who takes good care of things and of people.

I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination.

I have turned away from the thought of writing fiction in the past through what I suppose is, actually, fear. The direct, raw invitation for the reader to come in and explore my imagination is fairly scary for me so I have busied myself with so much else.

Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.

The best way to renew thought is to go outside the human imagination.

I have a good imagination. Look, I know what it feels like to have a broken heart. I know what it feels like to feel something for somebody. I'm just too weird to be in a relationship.

Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.

From stoplights to skyscrapers, turn anywhere in civilization and you will see imagination at work. It's in our inventions, advances and remedies and how a single parent masterminds each day. Imagination is boundless, surrounds us and resides in us all.

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

I enjoy working on a movie that lets your imagination run wild, it's great to be a part of and watch.

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.

One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?

I really like dating stories, like in Betty and Veronica comics; I like David Lynch and H.P. Lovecraft for the dark gut-wrenching stuff, and I'm inspired by Miyazaki's films for the subtle heart-warming moments, as well as the moments that blew up my imagination.

With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour.

Sometimes good television doesn't depend on money, it depends on imagination and good people directing, casting and doing the job with talented people.

When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.

I am not by any stretch of the imagination a tidy person, and the piles of unread books on the coffee table and by my bed have a plaintive, pleading quality to me - 'Read me, please!'

It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income.

I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination.

I do like to wrap things up and leave some things to the readers' imagination.

Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.

When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference.

Everybody in their own imagination decides what scary is.

You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.

The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.

An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.

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.

I've got an overactive brain. I enjoy work, I enjoy life, and I'm not good at relaxing. I've also never slept very much due to this overactive imagination and my brain constantly thinking.

Science is imagination in the service of the verifiable truth, and that service is indeed communal. It cannot be rigidly planned. Rather, it requires freedom and courage and the plural contributions of many different kinds of people who must maintain their individuality while giving to the group.

The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South.

It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.

The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.

When I got large enough to go to work, while employed I was reflecting on many things that would present themselves to my imagination; and whenever an opportunity occurred of looking at a book, when the school-children were getting their lessons, I would find many things that the fertility of my own imagination had depicted to me before.

The imagination of our children is blunted on television, and their thinking is done for them.

I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.

I started writing because I found I could spend more time in my own imagination by doing that than I could by reading.

People can't just listen to the music and have their own imagination and take them where they wanna go.

Fantasy has a dark side to it. It also has a light hemisphere - the power of the human imagination to keep going, to imagine a better tomorrow.

I always look on imagination as one of the most powerful things we can cultivate in young people. If they have a good, active imagination, they can cope with life better; they are... able to imagine possibilities and to think around problems.

I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can.

On 'Into The Wild' I spent months risking my life and on 'Speed Racer' I spent 60 days acting in front of a green screen. No danger to my physical self, but I sure had to use my imagination.

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.

Unless you're living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there's no point in being gloomy. We've spent too long trying to cheer ourselves up by spending money on brightly coloured things we don't really need. We've stopped using our imaginations.

The best way to enhance a child's imagination is to make them read.

Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

The imagination is a pretty precious source of protection.

One thing about 'Star Wars' that I'm really proud of is that it expands the imagination. That's why I like the 'Star Wars' toys.

Imagination has a great deal to do with winning.

I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack.

A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their fiction. A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

Pop music can get inside us and enter our memory bubbles. It provides those true Proustian moments, unlocking sensations, unlocking our imaginations. Music inspired me as a filmmaker.

The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.