Imagination Quotes

An idea is salvation by imagination.

The development of beauty in chess never depends on you alone. No matter how much imagination and creativity you invest, you still do not create beauty. Your opponent must react at the same highest level.

Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?

It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.

Three centuries after the appearance of Franklin's 'Courant,' it no longer requires a dystopic imagination to wonder who will have the dubious distinction of publishing America's last genuine newspaper. Few believe that newspapers in their current printed form will survive.

For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.

The imagination is man's power over nature.

By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.

Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe.

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?

One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.

The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success on the stage.

There are no shortcuts in life - only those we imagine.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.

It takes no imagination to live within your means.

I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination.

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.