Imagination Quotes

4096 Imagination quotes by 2387 unique authors

Artistic creativity is a whirlpool of imagination that swirls in the depths of the mind. — Robert Toth
Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If you don't daydream and kind of plan things out in your imagination, you never get there. So you have to start someplace. — Robert Duvall
Justice is to be found only in the imagination. — Alfred Nobel
Literature as a whole is not an aggregate of exhibits with red and blue ribbons attached to them, like a cat-show, but the range of… — Northrop Frye
The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination. — Northrop Frye
No matter how much experience we may gather in life, we can never in life get the dimension of experience that the imagination gives us.… — Northrop Frye
There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination. — Lionel Trilling
If a man’s imagination were not so weak, so easily tired, if his capacity for wonder not so limited, he would abandon forever such fantasies… — Edward Abbey
The secret of survival is a defective imagination. — John Banville
The greatest gift you can give a child is an imagination. — Eleanor Roosevelt
I want to be remembered most as a writer - one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well. — Arthur C. Clarke
But who can distinguish between falling in love and imagining falling in love? Even genuinely falling in love is an act of the imagination. — John Irving
We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. — Ray Bradbury
After all, we did not invent symbolism; it is a universal age-old activity of the human imagination. — Sigmund Freud
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 when… 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

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