Imagination Quotes

When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother?

Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster.

We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.

For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

On 'Into The Wild' I spent months risking my life and on 'Speed Racer' I spent 60 days acting in front of a green screen. No danger to my physical self, but I sure had to use my imagination.

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

My imagination completely controls me, and forever feeds the fire that burns with dark red light in my heart by bringing me the best dreams. I've always had a wild imagination, a big heart and a tortured soul so I feel that dark fantasy, love and horror are in my blood.

Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, it's so grimly brutal!

I had a good imagination and I still have one; a child-like imagination that hasn't gone away.

I love our shared island, our shared Ireland and its core decency. I love it for its imagination and its celebration of the endless possibilities for our people.

But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

President Reagan was a leader at a time when the American people most needed leadership. He outlined a vision that captured the imagination of the free world, a vision that toppled the Communist empire and freed countless millions.

In those days, it didn't take much imagination to come up with something that required great lyric development skills. You just thought of an experience that you might have gone through, and write it down.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

I was a wild, mischievous kid, and I had tremendous imagination. Any experience I had, I'd try to reenact it.

You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination.

My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form, whether visual, intellectual or musical.

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

Imagination comes of not having things.

The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.

Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.

I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack.

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.