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Quotes About Imagination

Without literature my life would be miserable.
~ Naguib Mahfouz
We cannot all see the dreams in the same way.
~ Paulo Coelho
Any girl from any walk of life dreams of that special dress, and I try to make that dream a reality for her.
~ Oscar de la Renta
No matter how qualified you are, you won't reach a better life until you imagine it.
~ Richard Bach
Art cannot be bought or sold. It can only be created or destroyed.
~ Iimani David
Life, he thought, is a blatant act of imagination.
~ Jess Walter, Beautiful Ruins
People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
I adore imaginary monsters, but I am terrified of real ones.
~ Teju Cole, Open City
Mythology is a subjective truth. Every culture imagines life a certain way.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.
~ Carlos Fuentes
I have an imagination because my life is so boring that my imagination lets me get off the reality of what's going on.
~ Dave Attell
Life would have been absolutely empty without imagination.
~ Jack Williamson
[Pablo] Picasso really changed my life. It's strange to say so, but I started to see some Picasso paintings very early. I was very young, and he was not so much known.
~ Agnes Varda
In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not forecasted, happenings without explanation, retrospective.
~ Alan Lightman
The justification for a university is that it preserves the connection between knowledge and the zest of life, by uniting the young and the old in the imaginative consideration of learning.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
My manic depression was ravaging my life, but because nobody could see it, many people thought it was a figment of my imagination.
~ Andy Behrman
Mere exactitude, of which photography and moulage [life casting] are the lowest forms, does not inspire feelings.
~ Auguste Rodin
Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a world where imagination and hope are alive and active.
~ Bertrand Russell
Experiencing life through a book can help you learn without all the pain of going through the experiences first hand.
~ Bette Greene
We who have been true readers all our life fully realize the enormous of our being which we owe to authors.
~ C. S. Lewis
That book taught me that by reading, I could live more intensely. It could give me back the sight I had lost. For that reason alone, a book that didn't matter to anyone changed my life.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
All my life I have dreamed of you.
~ Catherine Fisher
Life being full of harsh realities, we seek relief from them in a variety of pleasing delusions.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
As the writer you are the puppet-master and can control everything. Believe me, that is a whole lot of fun because it ain't something that's going to be happening very often in real life!
~ Christopher Paul Curtis