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Quotes About Imagination

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
~ James Russell Lowell
One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
~ Carl Sandburg
Style is the dress of thoughts.
~ Lord Chesterfield
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
~ Henry David Thoreau
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imaged, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
~ Henry David Thoreau
We are never further from our wishes than when we imagine that we possess what we have desired.
~ Johann von Goethe
Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.
~ Marshall McLuhan
Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
~ Pablo Picasso
Of all the dramatic media, radio is the most visual.
~ John Reeves
A good storyteller is a person who has a good memory and hopes other people haven't.
~ Irvin S. Cobb
Nothing in the world can one imagine beforehand, not the least thing. Everything is made up of so many unique particulars that cannot be foreseen.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
The possibilities for tomorrow are usually beyond our expectations.
~ Anonymous
The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.
~ Joseph Conrad
The greater part of our lives is spent in dreaming over the morrow, and when it comes, it, too, is consumed in the anticipation of a brighter morrow, and so the cheat is prolonged, even to the grave.
~ Mark Rutherford
Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
~ Victor Hugo
The present moment is creative, creating with an unheard-of intensity.
~ Le Corbusier
The power of Thought, - the magic of the Mind!
~ Lord Byron
My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
My thoughts by night are often filled With visions false as fair: For in the past alone, I build My castles in the air.
~ Thomas Love Peacock
All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only upon the full use of our creative imagination.
~ Ruth Ross
What man can imagine he may one day achieve.
~ Nancy Hale
Our visions begin with our desires.
~ Audre Lorde
Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
~ Pamela Vaull Starr
Imagination is the highest kite that can fly.
~ Lauren Bacall