Quotes About Inspiration

We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment.

The only realism in art is of the imagination.

When you use your imagination anything can happen.

I want to be remembered most as a writer - one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well.

The game I play is a very interesting one. It's imagination, in a tight straightjacket.

Every powerful movement has had its philosophy which has gripped the mind, fired the imagination and captured the devotion of its adherents.

Thought paceth like a hoary sage, but imagination hath wings as an eagle.

One factor that has remained constant through all the twists and turns of the history of physical science is the decisive importance of the mathematical imagination.

An imaginative adventure does not enjoy the same corsets as reportage.

It is a certain rule that wit and passion are entirely incompatible. When the affections are moved, there is no place for the imagination.

Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.

Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.

My imagination creates my reality.

Reality is but a poor excuse for not having an imagination.

The Christian should be the person who is alive, whose imagination absolutely boils, which moves, which produces something a bit different from God's world because God made us to be creative.

So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.

As an inclusive quality, imagination is thus our primary force for progress, whatever progress is.

I don't know what imagination is, if not an unpruned, tangled kind of memory.

The freedom of personal expression, ideas and imagination, working in collaboration with people from diverse backgrounds - is what's needed to spawn creativity.

A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their fiction. A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.

I have never looked for dream in reality or reality in dream. I have allowed my imagination free play, and I have not been led astray by it.

I don't understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy.

Fish stimulates the brain, but fishing stimulates the imagination.

Change happens not just by giving the mind new arguments but also by feeding the imagination new beauties