Quotes About Imagination

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.

We make Idols of our concepts, but Wisdom is born of wonder

Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind.

The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.

The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

Where knowledge ends... feeling and imagination begin.

I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.

A ray of imagination or of wisdom may enlighten the universe, and glow into remotest centuries.

To know the world, one must construct it

Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Contemporary art challenges us.. it broadens our horizons. It asks us to think beyond the limits of conventional wisdom.

Let's go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday.

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive knowledge.

Way over yonder is a place I have seen In a garden of wisdom from some long ago dream.

Use your imagination lovingly on behalf of another.

Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away.

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

I don't fancy colors of the face, I'm always attracted to colors of the brain.

Dreams are our only geography—our native land.

All great art originates from the innocent child within us expressing itself through the wisdom, experience and skill of an adult.

My childhood library was small enough not to be intimidating. And yet I felt the whole world was contained in those two rooms. I could walk any aisle and smell wisdom.