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Quotes About Inspiration

The future is not there waiting for us. We create it by the power of imagination.
~ Vilayat Inayat Khan
We all want to have a place where we can dream and escape anything that wraps steel bands around our imagination and creativity.
~ Bob Goff
Microsoft's only factory asset is the human imagination.
~ Bill Gates
An educational foundation is only part of the equation. In order for creativity to flourish and imagination to take hold, we also need to expose our children to the arts from a very young age.
~ Michelle Obama
All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is not at all a desirable quality in a statesman.
~ W. H. Auden
Sometimes the most exciting journey you can make is through your own imagination.
~ Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
Imagination is something you do alone.
~ Steve Wozniak
Learn to foster an ardent imagination; so shall you descry beauty which others passed unheeded.
~ Norman Douglas
It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
~ Barry Lopez
The imagination is a place all by itself. A separate country. Now, you've heard of the French nation, the British nation. Well, this is the Imagi-nation. It's a wonderful place.
~ George Seaton
People who think my books are autobiographical, which they're not, credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I do, however, have a powerful imagination
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
It is only unimaginative persons who can be really astonished. The imagination can always outrun the possible and actual sights and sounds of the world.
~ Sarah Orne Jewett
A photographer without imagination is not a good photographer.
~ Graciela Iturbide
The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real.
~ Wallace Stevens
I did not go to any creative writing workshop; I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone can write. All it needs is imagination.
~ Vikas Swarup
Imagination is my best friend.
~ Neil Young
Imagination is the hood ornament on your car of creativity.
~ Gary Busey
Every bush can burn if you fire it with your imagination.
~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.
~ Philip José Farmer
Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.
~ Jimi Hendrix
[Great artists] do not copy what they see, but what they desire.
~ Theophile Gautier
I'm interested in that hybrid - the place between the real world and my imagination. There's a friction that's created between the things we imagine and the things that exist.
~ Laurel Nakadate
Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.
~ Walter Darby Bannard
A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.
~ Raymond Carver