Quotes About Imagination

Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

Hey man, can you talk to dolphins and pilot whales with that huge forehead of yours?

They said, 'You have a blue guitar, / You do not play things as they are.' / The man replied, 'Things as they are / Are changed upon the blue guitar.'

A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.

One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.

The real giants have always been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas.

Every man who is not an artist is a traitor to his own nature.

Nothing is real beyond imaginative patterns men make of reality.

What can books of men that wive In a dragon-guarded land, Paintings of the dolphin-drawn Sea-nymphs in their pearly wagons Do, but awake a hope to live...?

The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man.

I think I was brought up with games and I don't think that they're just Pac-Man or Space Invaders. I think we've moved on, I think that there are stories being told and worlds being explored.

Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.

That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but surely he was a poem.

Imagination is like the drunk man who lost his watch and must get drunk again to find it.

I am not sure if women are attracted to genius. Can you imagine the wise wizard winning the woman over the gallant swordsman? It seems rather otherworldly in more ways than one.

My brother believed in all sorts of mythical creatures: pixies, dragons, werewolves, honest men.

ManBearPig, half man, half bear, half pig

The photographer will never replace the painter; one is a man, the other a machine. Let us compare them no longer. (1848)

Only a man unable to handle the actual world would create another one in which to hide.

Man peoples his current living space with a world of his own, crowded with the offspring of his fancies, desires, impulses, and passions.

The creative consequences of man's imaginative strivings may never make him whole; but they constitute his deepest consolations and his greatest glories.

Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.

It is only through imagination that men become aware of what the world might be; without it, 'progress' would become mechanical and trivial.

I grew up on comic books. 'X-Men' was my favorite team; Wolverine was my guy. At 8 years old, I dressed up as Wolverine with Adamantium claws that I made out of aluminum!