Quotes About Imagination

My mom didn't write, but she loved to read. She liked books 'that made you a little nervous.' Stephen King, Dean Koontz and Peter Straub were the three wise men of our family bookshelf.

But man invents nothing God did not create first.

It has been said that man can create anything which he can imagine.

Man is a wretch without woman; but woman is a monster-and thank Heaven, an almost impossible and hitherto imaginary monster--without man, as her acknowledged principal!

The things I wanted to be when I was a kid were an archeologist, because of dinosaur bones; a garbage man, because they got to ride on the side of the trucks; and a writer.

The man was hit in one eye by a stone, and that eye turned inward so that it looked into his mind, and he died of what he saw there

She tried to imagine what Charles would do if another man came up to him and said, "You bring me joy.

What better portrait of a writer than to show a man who has been bewitched by books?

All men are creative but few are artists.

love comes to man through his senses - to woman through her imagination.

Poetry, in a general sense, may be defined to be 'the expression of the imagination': and poetry is connate with the origin of man.

As for you and your heart and the things you said and didn't say, she will remember them all when men are fairy tales in books written by rabbits.

With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.

Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.

A man will remain a rag-picker as long as he has only the vision of a rag-picker.

The glow of inspiration warms us; this holy rapture springs from the seeds of the Divine mind sown in man.

But genius looks forward: the eyes of men are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates.

A man said to me, "You talk to your dead guru?" And I said, "Yeah." He said, "That's in your imagination." And I said, "Yeah!" Because my guru is in my imagination anywhere. Anywhere.

I am the image maker, I am the magic maker, I can turn the most ordinary man in the world into a star.

All men who read escape from something else into what lies behind the printed page; the quality of the dream may be argued, but its release has become a functional necessity.

One man's fantasy is another man's job.

I'm a man of the marketplace as well as an artist. I'm a pawnbroker of myth.

But see that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

A man lies upon the floor, spreads his arms, and transforms himself into a ship of a thousand sails.