Quotes About Imagination

The sensual man conforms thoughts to things; the poet conforms things to his thoughts.

Man is able to do what he is unable to imagine. His head trails a wake through the galaxy of the absurd.

A man doesn't dream about a woman because he thinks her "mysterious"; he decides that she is "mysterious" to justify his dreaming of her.

A poet sees things in two ways: First, as a child who never saw it before, and Second, as a dying man who will never see it again.

Few men have imagination enough for reality.

His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs.

I am in no sense of the word a great artist, not even a great animator; I have always had men working for me whose skills were greater than my own. I am an idea man.

Man is free in his imagination, but bound by his reason.

An old man was asked what had robbed him of joy in his life. His reply was, "Things that never happened."

I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum

It is only men who are free, who create the inventions and intellectual works which to us moderns make life worth while.

A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new contents.

God created infinity, and man, unable to understand infinity, had to invent finite sets.

What is an artist? He's a man who has antennae, who knows how to hook up to the currents which are in atmosphere, in the cosmos.

If you've got Mystique as your girlfriend the fun you could have in bed - I've just imagined X-Men 3 might open with me in bed with Patrick Stewart.

Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.

Man's body is faulty, his mind untrustworthy, but his imagination has made him remarkable.

When you are describing, A shape, or sound, or tint; Don't state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things, With a sort of mental squint.

There is no beauty or romance or mystery in the sea except for the men that sail abroad upon it, and those who stay at home and dream of them.

A man's life is colored by the dye of his imagination.

As it turned out, imagining the fate of seven billion people was far less emotionally affecting than imagining the fate of one.

So, you're worried that a pink dragon will fly over the concent and fart nerve gas on us?

What if the places you went and the things you encountered in your work were more interesting than what was available in the physical world around you?

and nothing was worse than getting stuck in a situation like that with nothing to read.