Quotes About Inspiration

To write a song you must have an imagination, to have an imagination you must be free.

My imagination is a kind of animal. So what I do is keep it alive.

The peculiar value of geography lies in its fitness to nourish the mind with ideas and furnish the imagination with pictures.

Imagination grows by exercise.

In my dream the angel shrugged and said, if we fail this time, it will be a failure of imagination. And then she placed the world gently in the palm of my hand.

God has given us our talents, not to copy the talents of others, but rather to use our brains and imagination in order to obtain the revelation of true beauty.

The moment there is imagination there is myth

Imagination encircles the world.

One of the greatest assets you have is your imagination.

This alone is to be feared - the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of the spirit. The death of the body is to that, I think, a little thing.

The essence of art is to recapturel the fantasy and the imagination of a child again, but without the innocence of a child.

Imagination rules the earth

Structure is translation software for your imagination.

Where bright imagination reigns, the fine-wrought spirit feels acuter pains.

One siupreme fact which I have discovered is that it is not willpower, but fantasy and imagination that ceates. Imagination is the creative force. Imagination creates reality.

I think of myself as a songwriter, a weaver of story and imagination in a way that a novelist might write a book.

Literature speaks the language of the imagination, and the study of literature is supposed to train and improve the imagination.

You could almost describe psychedelics as enzymes for the activity of the imagination.

For me, drawing is a way of navigating the imagination and it remains the fundamental vehicle of my practice. Drawing allows me to be at my most inventive.

That, of course, is what great works of imagination do for us: They make us a little restless, destabilize us, question our preconceived notions and formulas.

Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination.

And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem.

Your imagination creates the inner picture that allows you to participate in the act of creation.

Mediocrity is perhaps due not so much to lack of imagination as to lack of faith in the imagination, lack of the capacity for this abandon.