Imagination Quotes

Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.

Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect.

I've done a lot of bad things. Use your imagination.

My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

If they want to talk about aliens and anything like that... that's part of the gift God gave us. That's what makes life exciting. We're pretty stuck, you know. What gives flight to our life is our imagination.

We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.

I feel very giddy with the idea of making my imagination take form and being able to put on a show where people leave feeling like they've experienced something.

I loved the world of imagination.

He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.

George has only got to ring me. His imagination is so wonderful, I'd do any character he might create.

Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points.

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.

Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.

It's just a way of trying to get to a third thing that's not particular to any quote-unquote genre. It's been great for me; it's really opened me up and gotten me to use that part of my imagination. It's very scary in a lot of ways, and just as exciting.

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.

You'd have to have one hell of an imagination to completely make up a story, but historians are very anal about what they think should be portrayed on screen. Thankfully they don't make movies; we do.

Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.

Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.

Imagination has a great deal to do with winning.

But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?

Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.

Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

I always believe it's better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do.