Imagination Quotations | Page 2

Possessing a healthy imagination is a necessary ingredient for creativity.

The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.

The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.

Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.

Even if there is endless documentation, it would be impossible to know what a man thought inside his own mind... This is where the novelist's creative imagination has to take over.

I consider myself very fortunate indeed to have created a character which has captured the imagination and enthusiasm of so many children worldwide. They are my family, and Spot belongs to them all.

Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.

Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made

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.

Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.

I admired Stephen Daldry very much; I think he's a brilliant director, and also, I feel close to him because he has a lot of theater behind him. He's also a man of great imagination and a lovely sense of humor.

Science fiction is my way of pushing the imagination onward. It's a way to understand how the world will look in the future.

But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?

I think it reflects well on the state of animation that people are knowledgeable about it and love the fantasy and imagination that goes into it.

I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.

If humanity is being swallowed by a modern primitivism, imagination might be the thing that saves us all.

Games are the way we keep romance alive. They're based in human hardwiring. Playing hard-to-get or leaving a little to the imagination allows the woman to be wooed and appreciated and the man to be challenged and intrigued.

Pulp existed for 12 years before we got famous. Now, you could say that was just lack of imagination, but it's some kind of quality isn't it? Tenacity. You could also say it was sloth.

Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

Jehovah God is truly rich far beyond the imagination of humankind.

I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination.

Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.

The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.

Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.

To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.

Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will.

Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself.

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.

There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.

There's not one major greatest influence on my career. It would be film and great artists and great imagineers - Jim Henson, Walt Disney, Charlie Chaplin, people who understand the joy of the imagination.

No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and not one play will resemble the other except in the premise. Your knowledge, your understanding of human nature, and your imagination will take care of that.

I feel like I'm a much better person when I'm developing my imagination and my innocence and my vulnerability. I like that version of me better than the version where I'm just working on my analytical mind.

I'm trying to write poems that involve beginning at a known place, and ending up at a slightly different place. I'm trying to take a little journey from one place to another, and it's usually from a realistic place, to a place in the imagination.

The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.

It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.

I still have a photo on my wall of the greatest idol I will ever have in my life, and it's myself at eight. Because that's when the forces of imagination have the same value as the real world, when they're an instrument of survival: when my mother disappeared, and I imagined a mother. That was me at my best.

It's what all actors try to do, really, to just preserve the child inside them because their imagination is quite available. I think partly it's because they're still making sense of the world. They haven't boxed everything up so neatly as most adults have. And the thing is adults haven't solved the world - they've just found a coping mechanism.

My imagination is my polestar; I steer by that.

Self-awareness is not the same thing as self-approval, any more than imagination is the same thing as day-dreaming.

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

I always imagined I could be what I wanted to be.

Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.

For me, my travels have been the chance to go to a place that already exists in my imagination.

Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible.

Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.

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?

An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.

And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem.

I'm an actor. Whether I'm on stage, in front of a camera or a microphone, what I do is the same - although with videogames it requires a lot of imagination.

When you are young your imagination is so clear.

Many think of memory as rote learning, a linear stuffing of the brain with facts, where understanding is irrelevant. When you teach it properly, with imagination and association, understanding becomes a part of it.

I love sci-fi because it leads in the imagination, and I always say it has the most intelligent fans in the world.

I always believe it's better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do.

I did not go to any creative writing workshop; I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone can write. All it needs is imagination.

The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.

We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.

There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.

So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.

It's easier for me to write certain character types because of my own life experiences, but I find it too artistically limiting to only write about red-headed kids who grew up in small town Montana. That's really part of the fun of fantasy, I think. Our imagination is basically unlimited. Okay, that's a terrifying thing about fantasy, too.

Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.

Digital imaging allows both groups to rise above the limitations of mess and clutter and mechanics, and apply our talents to creating images limited only by our imaginations.

I've got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination.

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.

I find that nothing but very close and intense application to subjects of a scientific nature now seems at all to keep my imagination from running wild, or to stop up the void which seems to be left in my mind from a want of excitement.

The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.

I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening.

I'd rather excite the imagination of a legion of readers and make pennies from each of them than hold off for a larger chunk of change from only a handful of fans.

I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.

Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.

Education must be aimed at creating a wider imagination in the child, not at suppressing. The childs mind must be set free.

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.

What's in front of you is a whole world of experiences beyond your imagination. Put yourself, and your growth and development, first.

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.

In the world of words the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

The best things that capture your imagination are ones you hadn't thought of before and that aren't talked about in the news all the time.

One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations.

You want to do something that shows some type individuality and talent and imagination - at the same time, you want to be truthful to the predecessors, because obviously the audience liked something about them and you have to replicate that experience to a certain extent.

The conscious process is reflected in the imagination; the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling.

Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

I'll be happy if I can gain even the smallest place inside the literary imagination of U.S. readers.

Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

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.

Writers to some extent are childish, and it's at the childish level that one really engages with any experience. What really moves you is at the very personal, childish level of the imagination. My business is the imagination, and my imagination is engaged by Asia.

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.

I have an imagination because my life is so boring that my imagination lets me get off the reality of what's going on.

I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.

That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.

In these times of stress, snark, division and despair, I still suspect that two of the most important features we possess are imagination and a capacity for goodness. Those are qualities for which we will be remembered most fondly.

What better way to expand your imagination than to read!

Certainly, for younger guys, Superman is this mythological character that they've thought about and explored in their imaginations... But one thing I really like about Superman fans is that they're so open-minded and excited and honest. There's something beautiful about their enjoyment of it - something very Superman-like.

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.

Cooking with kids is not just about ingredients, recipes, and cooking. It's about harnessing imagination, empowerment, and creativity.

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.

I saw that publishing all over the world was deeply constrained by self-censorship, economics and political censorship, while the military-industrial complex was growing at a tremendous rate, and the amount of information that it was collecting about all of us vastly exceeded the public imagination.

Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.

It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.