Quotes About Imagination

One has to regard a man as a Master who can produce on average three uniquely brilliant and entirely original similes to every page.

The noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men, which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed.

Because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical.

For in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos. What would we know of others if we did not imagine things?

Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning.

You are imagining that there is something called human nature which will be outraged by what we do and will turn against us. But we create human nature. Men are infinitely malleable.

No man living in a world as interesting as this ever writes a book if he can help it.

You don't know what it is to live and laugh and love and run a man through! You've never tasted salty air on your tongue or waved heartily at a mermaid!

The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun; it is imagination.

...it is not necessary to the child to awaken to the sense of the strange and humorous by giving a man a luminous nose...to the child it is sufficiently strange and humorous to have a nose at all.

Art is the signature of man.

Books represent the accumulated workings of the human mind, the endless treasures of man's thoughts.

Cultivate night-blooming jasmine near your bedroom window, and dream of men you've always longed for.

Man never creates, he only recombines the lines and colors of his own existance.

I'd rather meet Spider-man than some creator that would put me in real awe!

Mind is a kingdom to the man who gathereth his pleasure from ideas.

Is this wide world not large enough to fill thee,Nor Nature, nor that deep man's Nature, Art?Are they too thin, too weak and poor to still thee,Thou little heart?

...That he'd seen...two people, a young man and a woman, sitting on invisible furniture with their feet up, reading books and eating chocolates.

Some man's dreams can bring only nightmares to the world!

A great idea can change the world; but to change the universe, men need even much greater ideas!

Boat is nothing without water and man without his dreams!

Every man must be like Stephen Hawking. His body is here on earth, but his mind walks in the universe!

A bird without wings and a man without art are both condemned to wander in low places; they can never soar up to those unrivalled heights.

It's harder for men to imagine themselves as the girl in the movies than it is for me to imagine myself as Daniel Craig bringing down the building.