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Quotes About Inspiration

To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.
~ bell hooks
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
~ G.K. Chesterton
How else would God speak to me, if not through my imagination?
~ Joan of Arc
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
Everything starts with a dream, a particle of our imagination that teases us of what the future could be like, as long as we fight for it.
~ Gurbaksh Chahal
There is something more important than logic: imagination
~ Alfred Hitchcock
The guitar is your first wings. It's assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination.
~ Carlos Santana
LEGO has essentially taken the concrete block, the building block of the world, and made it into the building block of our imagination.
~ Ayah Bdeir
Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination.
~ Lemmy Kilmister
Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a reality.Don't put limitations on yourself.Others will do that for you.
~ James Cameron
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
~ Muhammad Ali
The imagination is precious. Don't lose it. Don't lose the child in you.
~ Marilyn Manson
By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
~ William Butler Yeats
Imagination allows us to conceive of delightful future possibilities, pick the most amazing one, and pull the present forward to meet it.
~ Jason Silva
With a developed imagination there's no place you can't go.
~ Sanford Meisner
Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
~ Walt Disney Company
The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
~ William Blake
I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.
~ Ai Weiwei
Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.
~ Irving Howe
Sunflowers are like people to me.
~ Joan Mitchell
Imagination is like a lofty building reared to meet the sky; whereas fancy is a balloon that soars at the wind's will.
~ Gelett Burgess
Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.
~ John Lennon
Drawing is exercise for a restless imagination.
~ Tim Burton
A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.
~ Russell Page