For you need imagination to form a notion of beauty at…

What is it that we in the theatre give? Instead of images on canvas or in the form of statuary or music, we give…

— Michael Chekhov

It is the form the idea takes in the imagination rather than the form as it exists outside.

— Arthur Dove

Though the parallel is not complete, it is safe to say that science will never touch them unaided by its practical applications. Its wonders…

— Arthur Balfour

“I would not wish Any companion in the world but you, Nor can imagination form a shape, Besides yourself, to like of.”

— William Shakespeare

Imagination is a form of seeing

— Anonymous

“imagination is a form of flagellation if a sensitive child lets it run wild ...”

— Noël Coward lyric

Fantasy consists in a morbid fascination with unrealities, which secretly transforms itself into a desire to make them real. Imagination is a form of…

— Roger Scruton

“We are the imagining animals. We are the ones who participate in the earth’s evolutionary process of imagination. For what is every manifest life-form…

— Monica Sjöö

We need more imagination, more innovation and more public financing for projects and programmes that harness the positive energy of young men.

— Rohini Nilekani

If all you want to do is make money, the very last thing you need is imagination.

— James A. Baldwin

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

— Maria Montessori

All you need is your own imagination. So use it that's what it's for.

— Madonna Ciccone

“We especially need imagination in science. It is not all logic, nor all mathematics, but is somewhat beauty and poetry.”

— Maria Mitchell

And I’m not confused about the lack of, or the need for, imagination in low or high places. We could do better we must…

— Robert Fulghum

What we need is imagination, but imagination in a terrible strait-jacket.

— Richard P. Feynman