Quotes About Imagination

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination.

The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything godlike about God, it is that. He dared to imagine everything

Yet the bookshelf us also conspicuous in its absence. When we enter a living room without books or bookshelves, we wonder if the people in the house do nothing but watch television.

There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write.

Dreams have always expanded our understanding of reality by challenging our boundaries of the real, of the possible.

Dreams seem to have a will of their own.

Strange stranger reaching out Grabbing hold in this mindless blindness I search and destroy for kindness That sits in my imagination's mind Across a burning field Across a drenching jungle Strange stranger strangely as you go I've always never seen you But you're the only one I know

No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage.

Books are both our luxuries and our daily bread.

Books are both our luxuries and our daily bread. -Henry Stevens (Posted on Twitter by @FSG_Books Farrar,Straus&Giroux

To impress others we must be earnest; to amuse them, it is only necessary to be kindly and fanciful.

Romance is the poetry of literature.

Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater To raise the dead to life than to create Phantoms that seem to live.

A boy's will is the wind's will,And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.

The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one.

There are things of which I may not speak; There are dreams that cannot die; There are thoughts that make the strong heart weak, And bring a pallor into the cheek, And a mist before the eye.

The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

The man who perceives life only with his eye, his ear, his hand, and his tongue, is but little higher than the ox or an intelligent dog; but he who has imagination sees things around and above him, as the angels see them.

All our other faculties seem to have the brown touch of earth upon them, but the imagination carries the very livery of heaven, and is God's self in the soul.

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

All prayer is the exercise of a spiritual imagination which realizes the Divine Presence by faith. Our first-hand views of spiritual things are peeps through the rifts which our religious imaginations make in the clouds the senses raise twixt earth and heaven.