Quotes About Imagination

In our time, when men have looked upon earth from afar, seeing it as a small, glistening sphere spinning in the black sea of space, it requires a long backward flight of the imagination to appreciate earlier perceptions of earth. They were visions of wonder and myth, and often they were marvelously wrong.

Our sense of wonder makes us question the way we've been doing things and encourages us to ask, Is there a better way?

Why don't we have a little game? Let's pretend that we're human beings, and that we're actually alive.

Your thoughts have little legs that go out & create what you think about.

Revelation births creativity.

Expand your sense of the possible.

Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty.

But we also need stories. Great stories.

Imagination is the faculty of the mind that God has given us to make the communication of his beauty beautiful.

True worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth" (John 4:23). Truth matters. There is no real worship without it. Intense affections for God, when we do not know God, are not truly affection for God. They are affections for a distortion of God in our imagination.

God's glory consists much in the fact that He is happy beyond all our imagination.

The imagination of a eunuch dwells more and longer upon the material of love than that of man or woman ... supplying, so far as he can, by speculation, the place of pleasures he can no longer enjoy.

Exploration is a liberal art, because it is an art that liberates, that frees, that opens away from narrowness. And it is fun.

If wishes were horses, beggars might ride.

I read many books, I saw many, many movies. I watched other lives, only through a window.

I think the camouflage of fiction allows more authenticity – you know, acknowledging that it is a 'fiction', a terrific lie, and that you want it to be believed.

The Ethereal Angels—these are the artists, the poets, the dancers. .

There's no substitute for imagination, but creativity is only enhanced when forged with life experience.

There are two novels that can transform a bookish 14-year-kid's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish daydream that can lead to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood in which large chunks of the day are spent inventing ways to make real life more like a fantasy novel. The other is a book about orcs.

The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.