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Quotes About Imagination

For each man there awaits... a particular image capable of annihilating the entire universe.
~ Louis Aragon
In his garden, every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation.
~ Louise Wilder
A man with no imaginations has no wings.
~ Muhammad Ali
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement.
~ Napoleon Hill
Man can create nothing which he does not first conceive in THOUGHT.
~ Napoleon Hill
What do men know? Because they have seen no unicorns for a while does not mean we have all vanished.
~ Peter S. Beagle
Woe to the man who tries to stretch the imagination of man He shall be mocked he shall be scourged by the blinkered guardians of morality.
~ Peter Weiss
I like men who paint or write or do something creative.
~ Olga Kurylenko
Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.
~ Olive Schreiner
The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
How was I going to make a man fly? How was I going to convince the public that an actor could fly?
~ Richard Donner
A "critic" is a man who creates nothing.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Once as I sat painting, I became aware of a man's face hovering near me, moving closer and closer to the panel I was working on. When he spoke he said, 'That is a fantastic brush!
~ Robert Genn
The big painter is one who has something to say. He thus does not paint men, landscape or furniture, but an idea.
~ Robert Henri
To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow men a secret element of gusto.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he
~ Stendhal
Books are not men and yet they are alive.
~ Stephen Vincent Benet
The soul of Man must quicken to creation.
~ T. S. Eliot
Using a metaphor in front of a man as unimaginative as Ridcully was like a red flag to a bu... was like putting something very annoying in front of someone who was annoyed by it.
~ Terry Pratchett
In a bowl to sea went wise men three, On a brilliant night of June: They carried a net, and their hearts were set On fishing up the moon.
~ Thomas Love Peacock
A man is a form of life that dreams in order to act and acts in order to dream.
~ W. H. Auden
Nothing that is possible in spirit is impossible in flesh and blood. Nothing that man can think is impossible. Nothing that man can imagine is impossible of realization.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the other as by their own imagination. They are always wooing goddesses, and marrying mere mortals.
~ Washington Irving
Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams.
~ William Wordsworth