Imagination Quotes

There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.

I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.

Imagination needs to be fed.

I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.

Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind.

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

The costume that I wear on the show is a little snug and doesn't leave a whole lot to the imagination. I don't have a problem with it because of the way this character's been written.

Everybody in their own imagination decides what scary is.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

It was like there was a pile of kindling that was in the back of my imagination just waiting there. Once I lit it, it just flared up and I kept getting ideas and ideas.

You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination.

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

I certainly know there are people in positions of power in the business who lack imagination and, perhaps as a result of that, think of me as 'David'. But I wouldn't really want to work with those people, you know?

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.

The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him.

Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.

A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination.

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

I have been afraid all my life that I am going to die. All my life it has been stuffed in my imagination.

Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.

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

The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.

Grandchildren have taught me how important the future is. I try to look through their eyes and envision what's in their imagination. What's the world going to look like when they're my age? That really does take a huge imagination.

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem.

Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.

The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.

People know that they're going to see something which is entertaining but challenging as well because of the form it's in. It's dance theatre and it requires you to use your imagination - it's not straight forward.