Art Quote by Thomas Merton

Imagination, where it is truly creative, is a faculty, and not a quality; it looks before and after, it gives the form that makes…

— James Russell Lowell

imagination is new reality in the process of being created. It represents the part of the existing order that can still grow.

— Nancy Hale

“imagination is the image-making faculty of the intellect that helps us discover, process, and creatively express coherent meaning.”

— Sarah Arthur

Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.

— Ada Lovelace

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

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 is a flame that ignites the creative spirit. Imagination lights up your mind by stoking mental fires. It can be stimulated from the…

— Wilferd Peterson

Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Imagination has to do with one's awareness of the reality of other people as well as of one's own reality. Imagination is a bridge…

— Paula Fox

Imagination is the power of the mind over the possibilities of things.

— Wallace Stevens

Imagination is a gift given to us from God and each one of us use it differently.

— Brian Jacques

Imagination is the light by which we can penetrate new worlds of thought and experience.

— Charles F. Haanel