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Quotes About Inspiration

Any person with any imagination is bound to be afraid.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Imagination is the mightiest despot.
~ Berthold Auerbach
It's important to excite the imagination of a woman.
~ Oscar de la Renta
The world of imagination is the world of eternity.
~ William Blake
If you take the shackles off your imagination, you can go anywhere with science fiction.
~ Lani Tupu
Imagination is a powerful force underlying all knowing
~ Jim Fowler
The gathering of believers should be an opportunity for wonder, anticipation and imagination; not drudgery, duty or routine.
~ Ross Parsley
I find it depressing that people think you have to be on drugs to watch [my stuff], that's a cop out, use your brain, use your imagination.
~ Noel Fielding
The human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given imagination.
~ Samuel Butler
Facts are the soil from which the story grows. Imagination is a last resort.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
My dear, beautiful and imaginative things can be destroyed. Beauty and imagination cannot.
~ Alan Moore
Music gives wings to the mind and flight to the imagination.
~ Plato
If we remain wedded to the way education is currently provided we cannot imagine other ways. We need some imagination, some fantasy, some new ways of thinking - some magic in fact.
~ Hedley Beare
Imagination awakens ambition, then causes it to lose its way.
~ Mason Cooley
What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.
~ Shia LaBeouf
Imagination is a place where all the important answers live.
~ Joe Meno
Can imagination act Perpendicular to fact? Can it be a kite that flies Till the Earth , umbrella-wise, Folds and drops away from sight?
~ Philip José Farmer
I think that is the secret of great acting. You have to bring your imagination to the party. You've got to have a great imagination.
~ Steven Spielberg
The way I think of the psychedelics is, they are catalysts to the imagination.
~ Terence McKenna
One should never turn one's back on a vivid imagination.
~ Lorrie Moore
The imagination is a dimension of nonlocal information
~ Terence McKenna
The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form.
~ Carol Ann Duffy
Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call sages, and those who act upon it, we call artists.
~ Tom Robbins
I don't know if we ever have enough distance to "see" our own trajectory. We're in the muddled middle of it. Who knows what will last, what poems will take hold of the imaginations of the future.
~ Dorianne Laux