Quotes About Imagination

The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.

Literature is man's exploration of man by artificial light, which is better than natural light because we can direct it where we want.

I dare to be great. The man without imagination stands unhurt and hath no wings. This is my credo, this is my forte.

Man Made 'God' in his own image. The eternal, the infinate, the unnameable was reduced to a mental idol that you had to believe in and worship as 'my god' or 'our god'.

To a commonplace man of limited intellect, for instance, nothing is simpler than to imagine himself an original character, and to revel in that belief without the slightest misgiving.

The man who never reads lives only one.

Man's most serious activity is play.

It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams.

Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.

Thus each person by his fears gives wings to rumor, and, without any real source of apprehension, men fear what they themselves have imagined.

The trouble is, we've been taught what to see and how to render what we see. If only we could be in the position of those men who did those wonderful drawings in Lascaux and Altimira!

We certainly have at present the dismal situation that the most imaginative men are directed by a group, the top managers, who are among the least.

It's fascinating to think that as soon as man came into existence, he started painting.

Some men see what is, and ask 'Why?' I see what might be, and ask 'Why Not?'

The advertising world had space men in it before spacemen existed.

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

Whatever a man does he must do first in his mind.

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

...Men fear what they themselves have imagined.

Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.

Art is man's refuge from adversity.

The poorest man in the world is a man without a dream.

No man can avail himself of the forces of his creative imagination, while dissipating them.