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Quotes About Inspiration

An act of imagination is an act of self-acceptance.
~ Richard Hugo
Do not confuse fantasy with imagination; the former consumes itself in daydreaming, the latter stimulates creativity in the arts and in the sciences.
~ Fausto Cercignani
Mere imagination would indeed be mere trifling; only no imagination is mere .
~ Charles Sanders Peirce
The imagination, give it the least license, dives deeper and soars higher than Nature goes.
~ Henry David Thoreau
There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.
~ Edward de Bono
The living can assist the imagination of the dead.
~ William Butler Yeats
All paintings start with concept, which is another word for image or imagination. The mistake is to isolate the concept as if the idea did not need to be given permanent form.
~ Joseph Plaskett
Your imagination will create many friends
~ Grace Lin
Our imagination just needs space. It's all it needs, that moment where you just sort of stare into the distance where your brain gets to sort of somehow rise up.
~ Glen Hansard
Try drawing or painting a scene you're working on. Often this will help free up you imagination.
~ Kevin Henkes
Pop music can get inside us and enter our memory bubbles. It provides those true Proustian moments, unlocking sensations, unlocking our imaginations. Music inspired me as a filmmaker.
~ Todd Haynes
Can art be completely invented? It's a matter of shaping reality with the help of imagination.
~ Aharon Appelfeld
Further, for once, I like the idea that people who think I'm a constant voice for the furthering of the imagination have to see that interest in a more materialistic fashion.
~ Peter Sotos
Without freedom, there is no creation.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination
~ Daphne Zuniga
Imagination comes in after we have experience.
~ William Morris Hunt
Everyone is a creative agent. ... The tools are your imagination and your imagination is limitless.
~ Oliver Herring
The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.
~ Russell Simmons
The story must spring from an impression or perception pressing enough to have made the writer write. It should magnetize the imagination and give pleasure.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
What we have is a crisis of imagination. Albert Einstein said that you cannot solve a problem with the same mind-set that created it.
~ Peter Buffett
We all live best in our imaginations.
~ Brad Meltzer
Imagination is a gift given to us from God and each one of us use it differently.
~ Brian Jacques
Bricks without straw are more easily made than imagination without memories.
~ Lord Dunsany
It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World's Soul into all of us.
~ Terence McKenna