No writer has an imaginative power richer than what the…

By focusing on positive, healthy motivations and letting the more negative ones pass, you can purify the source of you imaginative power.

— Denis Waitley

“You know that you are a writer if you are imaginative. You know that you are a writer if you are curious. You know…

— Jon Scieszka Katie DiCamillo

If you're asked constantly to do something extremely dull, you don't have to commit any imaginative power.

— Geraldine James

We have invented the literature because the reality wasn't imaginative enough and we also wanted to be alone, at least for a while!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Halloween's coming. Kids get very imaginative in my neighborhood. Last year, three kids showed up as Goldman Sachs executives and demanded 4.5 billion pieces…

— Jay Leno

When we speak about trespassing, we speak about artistic trespassing. You have to be prudent and have common sense and a sense of responsibility…

— Werner Herzog

On the surface the avant garde as a whole seems united primarily in terms of what they are against: the rejection of social institutions…

— C. D. Innes

The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative men.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm not good at standing on platforms and persuading people to my political point of view. Nor would I seek to. My gift is…

— David Hare

I found so-called great art too pompous, too stiff. What at this time was called minor art was freer, more imaginative, more open to…

— Jacques Lipchitz

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances. And it's being able - I can't tell you how…

— John Hurt

It is not necessary to have an extravagant food budget in order to serve things with variety and tastefully cooked. It is not necessary…

— Edith Schaeffer

When any civilization is dust and ashes," he said, "art is all that's left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning—human meaning, that is—is…

— Margaret Atwood

I definitely go through periods where I'm in a particular mood, or there's a consistent imaginative context that I feel I'm in, and I'm…

— Tom Hiddleston

Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative…

— Robert Hewison