Quotes About Imagination

Tell someone she can fly and she'll spend her entire life creating ways to acquire wings.

The photo is black and white, but the imagination is in color.

The scarecrow never loses its elegance."

The scarecrow's self-esteem turns rags into fashion.

There are a lot of unicorns, but I've never seen them.

There are those who give wings to imagination and put wisdom in a cage."

There is a writer in every sentence without the author.

Thought is like the universe, few see the stars.

What color do you need to finish painting your paradise?

Behind a little art there is a great artist.

New thoughts create a new tomorrow."

The artist's signature shows the whole story on a white canvas."

The photo is black and white, but the memory is in color.

The scarecrow has its own stylist."

There are so many colors in black and white.

I was breathing life into the book through my hand, and the book was breathing back out through me into the world. And what was a book but leather? And what was leather but animal skin? And what was paper but a tree, and vellum but lamb? And what was I but an idea?

I leaned back and glimpsed the stars, the same stories again but written in the sky.

We humans have a nasty habit of deciding to believe that things we don't actually understand are explained in some way that we make up. And the next thing we know, we're killing each other over these imaginings.

She believed, as others did, that a camera was good for more than recording the world. A photograph wasn't a response to something; it was something.

I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be.

when you don't create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. your tastes only narrow & exclude people. so create.

Reality's kind of a medium, maybe greater than paper. We all want life to have the same texture that we read about in novels.

but one of the things that drew me to science fiction and then into fantasy was how it rewarded me for using my imagination. And it wasn't just using my imagination to picture myself on a space station or riding a dragon;* it was using my imagination to visualize and believe in a world where the things that made me weird and awkward would actually make me cool and valuable.

If imagination is not set to the task of building a creative life, it busies itself with weaving a web of inner fears and doubts, blame and excuse. —LAURENCE G. BOLDT