--- title: "9 Sense Imagination Quotes by 9 authors" description: "Browse 9 Sense Imagination quotes by 9 authors. Discover the best Sense Imagination sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6a6/alan-rickman-4156_cinema_one-longs-for-a-director-with-a-sense-of_839995.jpg" --- > [One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-rickman/one-longs-for-a-director-with-a-sense-of-imagination/) [Alan Rickman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-rickman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6a6/alan-rickman-4156_cinema_one-longs-for-a-director-with-a-sense-of_839995.jpg) > [“What is more important... Better yet, essential to man's well-being than his sense of imagination and free-will.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/poet-diction/what-is-more-important-better-yet-essential-to-man-s-well-being-than/) [Poet Diction](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/poet-diction/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a73/poet-diction-270047_important_what-is-more-important-better-yet-essent_226919.jpg) > [Clad in metaphor, the world becomes newborn to our senses, like a phoenix. It is the most effective fresh presentation of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vera-nazarian/clad-in-metaphor-the-world-becomes-newborn-to-our-senses-like-a/) [Vera Nazarian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vera-nazarian/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2fe/vera-nazarian-1671_elements_clad-in-metaphor-the-world-becomes-newbo_3139162.png) > [“What they failed to realize is that we all should have a sense of imagination. My failures made me dream harder because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlena-jackson/what-they-failed-to-realize-is-that-we-all-should-have-a-sense-of/) [Charlena Jackson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlena-jackson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/506/charlena-jackson-11233_dreams_what-they-failed-to-realize-is-that-we-a_1241358.jpg) > [When you begin to sense that your imagination is the place where you are most divine, you feel called to clean out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-o-donohue/when-you-begin-to-sense-that-your-imagination-is-the-place-where-you/) [John O'Donohue](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-o-donohue/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5bb/john-o-donohue-1919_divine_when-you-begin-to-sense-that-your-imagin_453931.jpg) > [When I was a child, I was reading books filled with people different from me, all French, all foreigners. There was a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laila-lalami/when-i-was-a-child-i-was-reading-books-filled-with-people-different/) [Laila Lalami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laila-lalami/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/87d/laila-lalami-25030_book_when-i-was-a-child-i-was-reading-books-f_1213705.png) > [ ...\[T\]here should be a real sense of your imagination and your memories walking and woolgathering, tramping the hills, romping all over the… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-lamott/t-here-should-be-a-real-sense-of-your-imagination-and-your-memories/) [Anne Lamott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-lamott/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f69/anne-lamott-188_dance_t-here-should-be-a-real-sense-of-your-im_2763181.png) > [The first of our senses which we should take care never to let rust through disuse is that sixth sense, the imagination.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-fry/the-first-of-our-senses-which-we-should-take-care-never-to-let-rust/) [Christopher Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-fry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c7a/christopher-fry-5392_awake_the-first-of-our-senses-which-we-should_722758.jpg) > [Imagination, which is a quality writers must have, does not mean the ability to weave pretty stories out of nothing. In the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willa-cather/imagination-which-is-a-quality-writers-must-have-does-not-mean-the/) [Willa Cather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willa-cather/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c13/willa-cather-634_ability_imagination-which-is-a-quality-writers-m_2637161.png) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/sense-imagination/#itemlist", "name": "Sense Imagination Quotes", "numberOfItems": 9, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Alan Rickman" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-rickman/one-longs-for-a-director-with-a-sense-of-imagination/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6a6/alan-rickman-4156_cinema_one-longs-for-a-director-with-a-sense-of_839995.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6a6/alan-rickman-4156_cinema_one-longs-for-a-director-with-a-sense-of_839995.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6a6/alan-rickman-4156_cinema_one-longs-for-a-director-with-a-sense-of_839995.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.” — Alan Rickman", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“What is more important... 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