Quotes About Imagination

Whenas in silks my Julia goes, Then, then, methinks, how sweetly flows The liquefaction of her clothes!

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious, and draws up something which is normally beyond his reach. He mixes this thing with his normal experiences and out of the mixture he makes a work of art.

The life of the creative man is led, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.

Doodling is the brooding of the hand.

I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity.

Now I really make the little idea from clay, and I hold it in my hand. I can turn it, look at it from underneath, see it from one view, hold it against the sky, imagine it any size I like, and really be in control, almost like God creating something.

It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed from all eternity than to conceive a Being beyond its limits capable of creating it.

Creativeness often consists of merely turning up what is already there.

I saw an angel in the block of marble and I just chiseled 'til I set him free.

It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities.

Many times we will get more ideas and better ideas in two hours of creative loafing than in eight hours at a desk.

His words leap across rivers and mountains, but his thoughts are still only six inches long.

Nature, when she invented, manufactured and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.

There is only one answer to destruc-tiveness and that is creativity.

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.

We always attract into our lives whatever we think about most, believe in most strongly, expect on the deepest level, and imagine most vividly.

Let a man in a garret burn with enough intensity, and he will set fire to the world.

Enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal which takes the imagination by storm, and sec ond, a definite, intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.

Losses are comparative, only imagination makes them of any moment.

Your success depends on your ability to dream and follow through on those dreams.

Nothing can be truer than fairy wisdom. It is as true as sunbeams.