Quotes About Imagination

Throughout my life, my greatest benefactors have been my dreams and my travels; very few men, living or dead, have helped me in my struggle.

A painter is a man who paints what he sells; an artist, on the other hand, is a man who sells what he paints.

The world makes way for the man with an idea.

Music is the poor man's Parnassus.

Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

What is The Subconscious to every other man, in its creative aspect becomes, for writers, The Muse.

Man is the inventor of stupidity.

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, said Browning, and so it has - extended by the length of an artist's brush.

You can think of a painter as a trio - the artist, his talent and his muse, the last two always on the lookout for a new brush man.

To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet's mind, or the painter's, or the scientist's, but of the mind of man.

Imagination is a very precise thing, you know - it is not fantasy; the man who invented the wheel while he was observing another man walking - that is imagination!

Man has created gods in his own likeness and being himself mortal he has naturally supposed his creatures to be in the same sad predicament.

Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.

Flattery is an ensnaring quality, and leaves a very dangerous impression. It swells a man's imagination, entertains his vanity, and drives him to a doting upon his own person.

If professional wrestling did not exist, could you come up with this idea? Could you envision the popularity of huge men in tiny bathing suits, pretending to fight?

Men really do need sea-monsters in their personal oceans

The camera need not be a cold mechanical device. Like the pen, it is as good as the man who uses it. It can be the extension of mind and heart.

I often say if men were meant to fly we would have been born with either feathers and wings or at the very least parachutes that pop out of our butts.

Anything a man can imagine, another can create

The function of art is to free the spirit of man and to invigorate and enlarge his vision.

A man who excels in creating new things is the one who is good at dreaming when not sleeping.

Human beings are creators, flinging powerful images into the minds of their fellow men. And all of these images are built of tiny particles of thought.

For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.