Quotes About Imagination

The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity.

A truly wise man does not play leapfrog with a unicorn.

Be creative. Men only learnt how to fly when they stopped imitating birds.

Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus.

I want to meet the man who saw a turtle and said, "People will LOVE the ninja version of that."

The artist is the most interesting of all phenomena, for he represents creativity, the definition of man.

Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.

Vions are born in the soul of a man or woman who is consumed with the tension between what is and what could be.

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.

Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.

When ships to sail the void between the stars have been built, there will step forth men to sail these ships.

Between the worlds of men and make believe I can be found.

I do not like the phrase: Never cross a bridge till you come to it. The world is owned by men who cross bridges on their imaginations miles and miles in advance of the procession.

A man armed with a rhyming dictionary is a dangerous man.

Movies are the art form most like man's imagination.

Every man is an artist.

All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

Disney was not a good animator, he didn't draw well at all, but he was always a great idea man, and a good writer.

Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than art.

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

A man is as big as the measure of his thinking.

Man can only become what he is able to consciously imagine, or to 'image forth'.

Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold: Her skin was white as leprosy, The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she, Who thicks man's blood with cold.

No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination.