Imaginative Quotes

268 Imaginative quotes by 234 unique authors

I like the fact that kids are willing to be imaginative and go along with me when I'm telling strange tales. — Margaret Haddix
The science fiction world has a lot of people doing seriously imaginative thinking. — Paul Krugman
I love imaginative representations of a possible near-future, where you look at the technology and you think, "Well, yeah, that could really nearly be true."… — Bill Nighy
What matters is the imaginative truth. — Edna O'Brien
Cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music. And cooking draws upon your every talent--science, mathematics, energy,… — Julia Child
Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap, you're… — Zoe Kazan
One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative conception. The inner… — Edward Hopper
I found so-called great art too pompous, too stiff. What at this time was called minor art was freer, more imaginative, more open to all… — Jacques Lipchitz
Ghetto-dwellers are the great fantasists. There was an extraordinary vibrancy there, an imaginative life. When you are that poor, all you've got left is your… — Ben Okri
Too much reality in a picture is always a disappointment to the imaginative soul. We love suggestion and not hard facts. — John F. Carlson
I'm not good at standing on platforms and persuading people to my political point of view. Nor would I seek to. My gift is completely… — David Hare
It's actually hard for creative people to know themselves because the creative self is more complex than the non-creative self. The things that stand out… — Scott Barry Kaufman
What a rare joy it is to linger in the lucid, transcendent worlds of Jennifer Maier's poems. In taut, precise language and lapidary images, Now,… — Rick Hilles
Fiction may be, whatever else, an exercise in the capacity for imaginative love, or sympathy, or identification, — Marilynne Robinson
[The career a young man should choose should be] one that is most consonant with our dignity, one that is based on ideas of whose… — Karl Marx
Milton had a highly imaginative, Cowley a very fanciful mind. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy… — Michael Gove
I think it's too fast to say that all sci-fi ultimately winds up having some place in science. On the other hand, imaginative minds working… — Brian Greene
The thing that makes me happiest about Simpsons Illustrated are all the drawings that we get from readers. I wish we could print them all.… — Matt Groening
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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