Art Quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Imagination need not stand as an obstacle to clear-sighted perception; on the contrary, it can be a prerequisite for recognition of the less obvious…

— John Armstrong

Imagination is an almost divine faculty which, without recourse to any philosophical method, immediately perceives everything: the secret and intimate connections between things, correspondences…

— Charles Baudelaire

“Imagination consists in expelling from reality many incomplete persons, making use of the magical and subversive powers of desire, to obtain their return in…

— René Char

It is worth repeating that powerful imagination is not false outward vision, but intense inward representation, and a creative energy constantly fed by susceptibility…

— George Eliot

That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.

— George Berkeley

Imagination can't create anything new, can it? It only recycles bits and pieces from the world and reassembles them into visions... So when we…

— Tony Kushner

Imagination means nothing without doing.

— Charlie Chaplin

Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible.

— Ida Tarbell

Imagination is all about new possibilities, eventualities that don't exist, counterfactuals, a recombination of elements in new ways. It is about the untested. And…

— Maria Konnikova

The imagination is a spiritual apparatus. Unable to invent the world, it does the next best thing, and that is to assemble it piecemeal,…

— Jan Peacock

“[T]he imagination identifies … the external God with the soul of man. The imagination is … the true place of an existence which is…

— Ludwig Feuerbach

Imagination is the means of deep insight and sympathy, the power to conceive and express images removed from normal objective reality.

— William Wordsworth