Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The writer has three sources: imagination, observation, and experience — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Scientists have to have a metaphor. All scientists start with imagination. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Painting must be fertile. It must give birth to a world.. ..it must fertilize the imagination. — Joan Miro Copy Share Image
The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real. When it adheres to the unreal and intensifies what… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Hope your wildest hopes, dream your maddest dreams, imagine your most fantastic fantasies. Where your hopes and your dreams and your imagination… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
I always thought Cheers ended well. You always anticipate that the characters, theough they're leaving television, will somehow go on in another… — Kelsey Grammer Copy Share Image
Why does a literary scholar study the world of "fiction"? To show us that the facts can never be understood except in… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Cadiz is a city of magic, like Cracow or Dublin, to set the mind on fire at a turn of a corner.… — Honor Tracy Copy Share Image
First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making him all… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
When you're a writer and you're an adult, that's something you crave - that limitless imagination and love for worlds that don't… — Andy Muschietti Copy Share Image
It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Fantasy consists in a morbid fascination with unrealities, which secretly transforms itself into a desire to make them real. Imagination is a… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“Certain acts dazzle us and light up blurred surfaces, if our eyes are sharp enough to see them in a flash, for… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
“Designer Charles Eames, arguably the quintessential Renaissance Man of the twentieth century, used to complain good-naturedly that he devoted only about one… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
What we experience in various and specific milieux, I have noted, is often caused by structural changes. Accordingly, to understand the changes… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
Zen is not a particular state but the normal state: silent, peaceful, unagitated. In Zazen neither intention, analysis, specific effort nor imagination… — Taisen Deshimaru Copy Share Image
With a book called 'Keeping Score,' I really did want to write a book about the Korean War, because I felt that… — Linda Sue Park Copy Share Image
The image can only be studied through the image, by dreaming images as they gather in reverie. It is a non-sense to… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“Man was first a hunter, and an artist: his early vestiges tell us that alone. But he must always have dreamed, and… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
“Without the aid of the imagination all the pleasures of the senses must sink into grossness.” — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Me liking you = Reality. You liking me = Fantasy. Me and you = too good to be true… — Alvin Copy Share Image
Every comic delves into the personal archive when their imagination runs dry. — James Acaster Copy Share Image
There is art and beauty and power in the primal images of fantasy. — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
“Einstein also said that ‘Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.’” He” — Ellery Adams Copy Share Image
“It is amazing what a pen and paper can create when one adds just a little imagination.” — Bethany Robbins Copy Share Image
What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals. — Shia LaBeouf Copy Share Image
“On a whitely cloudy day I get sad, almost afraid, And I begin to meditate about problems I make up.” — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“I spend a lot of time imagining things - in fact, you could say that imagining things is my job.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
If all you want to do is make money, the very last thing you need is imagination. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Imagination offers people consolation for what they cannot be, and humor for what they actually are. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“I tried to close my imagination, but it stayed open like a book that has been read too often.” — Christie Watson Copy Share Image
Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points. — Percival Lowell Copy Share Image
“A good dose of fantasy is exercise for your sensibilities; it keeps your avatar strong.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
