Imagination Quotes

4096 Imagination quotes by 2387 unique authors

The white imagination is sure something when it comes to blacks. — Josephine Baker
You imagination is more important than your knowledge. — Mike Murdock
Christianity set itself the goal of fulfilling man’s unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignored his attainable desires. By promising man eternal life, it… — Ludwig Feuerbach
Another side to me is this very sexual being. When I look back on my life, it's always been there. It's been there since I… — Janet Jackson
The heart changes...but we learn of it only from reading or by imagination; for in reality its alteration, like that of certain natural phenomena, is… — Marcel Proust
No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and… — Anne Sullivan Macy
Overnight, punk had become as stupid as everything else. This wonderful vital force that was articulated by the music was really about corrupting every form-it… — Legs McNeil
People who think my books are autobiographical, which they're not, credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I do, however, have… — Curtis Sittenfeld
I think as much as possible, an artist, if he has any kind of social or political concern, has to…expose as much as possible what… — Keith Haring
Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations. If you adopt their attitudes, then the possibility won't exist because you'll have already shut it out...You… — Mae Jemison
To travel is very useful, it makes the imagination work, the rest is just delusion and pain. Our journey is entirely imaginary, which is its… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
When I close my eyes, my imagination roams free. In the same way I want to create spaces for video art that rethink the very… — Pipilotti Rist
Photographs have the kind of authority over imagination to-day, which the printed word had yesterday, and the spoken word before that. They seem utterly real.… — Walter Lippmann
The only thing that we can really make is our work, and deliberate work of the mind, imagination and hand, done, as Nietzsche said, ‘notwithstanding,’… — Edmund Wilson
It's a great excuse and luxury, having a job and blaming it for your inability to do your own art. When you don't have to… — Julian Schnabel
Only curiosity about the fate of others, the ability to put ourselves in their shoes, and the will to enter their world through the magic… — Azar Nafisi
I believe in empathy. I believe in the kind of empathy that is created through imagination and through intimate, personal relationships. I am a writer… — Azar Nafisi
The great secret of morals is love; or a going out of our nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Another reason I think the novel will survive is that the reader has to work in a novel. In a film, you are presented with… — John Fowles
It art can only succeed through the cooperating imagination and intelligence of its consumers, who fill out, for themselves, the artist's world and make it… — William H. Gass
My temptation is quiet. Here at life's end Neither loose imagination Nor the mill of the mind Consuming its rag and bone, Can make the… — William Butler Yeats
When I circled the moon and looked back at Earth, my outlook on life and my viewpoint of Earth changed... Earth is a spaceship, just… — Jim Lovell
It is only necessary to raise a bugbear before the English imagination in order to govern it at will. Whatever they hate or fear, they… — William Hazlitt
And with listening, too, it seems to me, it is not the ear that hears, it is not the physical organ that performs the act… — Mary Caroline Richards
When shall we see poets born? After a time of disasters and great misfortunes, when harrowed nations begin to breathe again. And then, shaken by… — Denis Diderot

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