Imagination Quotes

When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination.

I grew up in the '80s where there's a lot of these kind of post-apocalyptic, post-comet, post-whatever it was, so that always captured my imagination a lot as a little kid, that idea of getting access to secret places and being able to roam around where you're not supposed to.

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination.

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.

Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.

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

Imagination creates some big monsters.

For me, my travels have been the chance to go to a place that already exists in my imagination.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.

But the greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out. You want the listener to find the song on their own. If you give too much away, it takes away from the imagination.

Man lives by imagination.

To them though, not to us, we were just a catalyst for their imagination.

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

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.

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.