Imagination Quotes

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Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible. — Ida Tarbell
Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding critics.… — Gertrude Atherton
To write a song you must have an imagination, to have an imagination you must be free. — Bruno Mars
Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king. — Mark Van Doren
Why be narrow-minded, why cut ourselves off from any of these rich heritages whenâ€¦ we have the freedom to make the most of the best… — Michael Chekhov
I am absorbed in the magic of movement and light. Movement never lies. It is the magic of what I call the outer space of… — Martha Graham
Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers. — Les Baxter
Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it. — Robinson Jeffers
Most people are afraid to trust their imaginations and the artist is not. — Sherwood Anderson
Have you ever seen any member of radiohead aside from me in public? Do they interact or 'lift' objects? Holograms, all of them. I created… — Thom Yorke
Painters are not in any way unsociable through pride, but either because they find few pursuits equal to painting, or in order not to corrupt… — Michelangelo
The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best travel is that which one can take by one's own fireside. In memory or imagination. — George Eliot
ImaginationÂ is a licensed trespasser: it has no fear of dogs, but may climb over walls and peep in at windows with impunity. — George Eliot
Christ, what an imagination I've got! — John Brunner
Just as one's imagination is stirred by a girl's smile, so is one's imagination stirred by the possibilities of chess. — Mikhail Tal
Imagination doesnâ€™t just mean making things up. It means thinking things through, solving them, or hoping to do so, and being just distant enough to… — Diana Wynne Jones
I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination. — Cornelia Funke
Your imagination comes to life, and this, you think, is where Creation was begun. — N. Scott Momaday
Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a right line was… — Edward Bellamy

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