Imagination Quotes

One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.

If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling, filled with imagination and with appetite for the new and with respect for the old - somebody who takes good care of things and of people.

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

I wouldn't say that I've had a tough life by any stretch of the imagination.

I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can.

The human race is governed by its imagination.

Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I've fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse.

The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.

Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.

Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

Some of us are interested in directors, but really the vast majority of us are interested in actors. 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.

Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.

Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.

When we were filming 'The Darkest Hour,' we didn't even know what the aliens were going to look like, we didn't even have a graphic reference. So it was definitely a big challenge to sell those kind of extreme moments when you're just generating them from your own imagination.

He brought imagination to the story of the Creation.

There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

I was raised not to be afraid to show emotion or imagination.

The human mind evolved always in the company of the human body, and of the animal body before it was human. The intricate connections of mind and body must exceed our imagination, as from our point of view we are peculiarly prevented from observing them.

I can't satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as an art form as much as it used to be.

The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.

An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people's imagination, and all of them were very difficult women.

What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination.