Quotes About Imagination

If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.

Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both art and truth.

I had build up false pictures in my mind and sat before them. I had never had the courage to demand the truth.

To write and not tell the truth? That would be death for any writer. But more, it would be death to the imagination. And if the imagination dies, what would happen to the souls of children?

It's all a quilt of fairy tales with a patch here and there of truth.

... the constructive power of an image is not measured in terms of its truth, but of the love it inspires.

Novelists tell that piece of truth hidden at the bottom of every lie.

I adore [photography's] uneasy mix of fact and fiction - its dubious claim to truth - its status as history.

Truth will flourish in fantasy, only to wither and die in what you are pleased to call reality.

I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth.

I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them

Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.

Tell the truth and read story books;it will take you to the magical moment in a glory night.

Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.

Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life.

All truth is very ordinary. It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary.

So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration

Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!

The more perfect the approximation to truth, the more perfect is art.

We have a great responsibility. Whatever we make will become the truth, the visual reality that a generation will accept.

The place for truth is not in the facts of a novel; it is in the feelings.

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

When the good pictures come, we hope they tell truths, but truths 'told slant,' just as Emily Dickinson commanded.