Quotes About Imagination

We live and breathe words.

Actually," said Jace, "I prefer to think that I'm a liar in a way that's uniquely my own.

the world—have been sucked up into the phantasmagorical pages of a novel by Neal Stephenson, the shy West Coast

Entrepreneurial creation is the generation, de novo, of novelty and surprise—freedom of choice originating in the world of ideas, and imagination beyond all concern with chemicals. The contrary view—that all ideas are determined by material relationships—is the materialist superstition.

I had a dream, which was not at all a dream.

Tis strange,-but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction: if it could be told, How much would novels gain by the exchange! How differently the world would men behold!

If I could always read I should never feel the want of company.

For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.

I cannot conceive why people will always mix up my own character and opinions with those of the imaginary beings which, as a poet, I have the right and liberty to draw.

Hail, Muse! et cetera.

Ah me! what hand can pencil guide, or pen, To follow half on which the eye dilates Through views more dazzling unto mortal ken. Than those whereof such things the bard relates, Who to the awe-struck world unlocked Elysium's gates?

Poetry is a distinct faculty, - it won't come when called, - you may as well whistle for a wind.

A drop of ink may make a million think.

You may say we're all dreamers, And you're not the only one, But if you care to join us, Then the world will be more fun.

Think more interestingly more clearly more often, because life is more interesting than you think.

It's all in the mind.

Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.

Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.

Science is not addressed to poets.

The ability to relate and to connect, sometimes in odd and yet striking fashion, lies at the very heart of any creative use of the mind, no matter in what field or discipline.

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

Art is the sex of imagination.

To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted