Imagination Quotes

4096 Imagination quotes by 2387 unique authors

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
Imagination 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 doesn’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
He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you do not see great riches in your imagination, you will never see them in your bank balance. — Napoleon Hill
MAN’S ONLY LIMITATION, within reason, LIES IN HIS DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF HIS IMAGINATION. — Napoleon Hill
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! And powerful things at that, when mixed with definiteness of… — Napoleon Hill
Life is infinite energy coupled with limitless creative imagination. It is the invisible essence and substance of every visible form. Its nature is goodness, truth,… — Ernest Holmes
As an aspiring artist, you should strive for originality of vision. Have something to say and a fresh way of saying it. No story is… — Maurice Sendak
Try drawing or painting a scene you're working on. Often this will help free up you imagination. — Kevin Henkes
My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias. — Abdul Kalam
Imagination is what has driven human progress since very early times. — Barbara Hambly
In the world of words the imagination is one of the forces of nature. — Larry Niven
Under the force of the imagination, nature itself is changed. — Peter Ackroyd
I'm filled with admiration, delight, and gratitude at discovering James Lasdun's poems in A Jump Start. He has wit, speed, intelligence, a keen eye, precision,… — Anthony Hecht
Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became… — L. Frank Baum
Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture,… — Jim Jarmusch
Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your… — Jim Jarmusch

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