Imagination Quotes
- Page 2I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it's not imagination. It's just a way of watching.
Haruki Murakami
An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.
Maria Callas
Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination.
Henry Miller
I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman.
Claire Danes
Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
Felix Bloch
Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.
Robert Collier
I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.
Keith Haring
For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
Arthur Conan Doyle
I was a wild, mischievous kid, and I had tremendous imagination. Any experience I had, I'd try to reenact it.
Adrien Brody
Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!
Dr. Seuss
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.
Danny Boyle
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.
Michael Tippett
The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.
Sarah Fielding
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.
Napoleon Hill
Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.
George Henry Lewes
I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack.
Simon Pegg
To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
George Jean Nathan
He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
Eduard Hanslick
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
Leonardo da Vinci