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Quotes About Imagination

It is the artist who tries to gradually accustom people to the possibilities of a better state of things.
~ Catherine Amy Dawson Scott
Luck and nature shapes our imagination.
~ Kishore Bansal
The forces of the sea give rise to imagination, which reflects them according to the nature and disposition of the perceiver. The sea itself is undifferentiated and without bias.
~ F.T. McKinstry, The Gray Isles
I sometimes wonder how many beautiful black sweaters have been knit from my wool.
~ D. M. Timney
You do much worse things- you who can see to other planets."- Bertha, "The Father
~ August Strindberg, The Father
It seemed to us that all people to a greater or lesser degree belong to one of these two types, that almost every one of us resembles either Don Quixote or Hamlet.
~ Ivan Turgenev, Don Quixote
Actually, it's nature itself that creates the most beautiful pictures, I'm only choosing the perspective.
~ Katja Michael
I am the eye that beholds... And I am the dreamer that paints the stars in the night sky... For I am the one they call artist, and you call Love.
~ Solange nicole
...I know Shakespeare said art is holding up a mirror to nature- but you're actually bending and refracting it through your interior dialogue ...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
Nature is a picture waiting to be taken.
~ Katja Michael
The woods were made for the hunter of dreams The brooks for the fishes of song.
~ Sam Walter Foss
In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
~ Wallace Stevens
The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.
~ Iain McGilchrist
I get ideas from everywhere: movies, books, movies, nature - it comes into my brain, it sits there for a while, and it starts coming back out.
~ Tony DiTerlizzi
Nature's imagination is so boundless compared to our own meager human imagination.
~ James Cameron
I like Stan [Getz], because he has so much patience, the way he plays those melodies - other people can't get nothing out of a song, but he can, which takes a lot of imagination.
~ Miles Davis
When a painting problem crops up, don't rush to fix it. You probably already know one way to fix it, but wait for something else to show up... invite the muses to bring you a new solution.
~ Carole Katchen
Sometimes you have the feeling that some little imp is standing behind you and dictating to you, but he gives it to you slowly, drop by drop.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.
~ Jane Austen, Emma
To sit down at a computer every day and write a script is commendable. I don't have the patience for it, but I have some fantastic ideas.
~ Shiloh Fernandez
I didn't have the patience for the research, or anything like that. I just like how it sets the imagination off. It's just an area that's very fertile for great words. Great metaphors, potentially.
~ Andrew Bird
Why books...audiobooks... stories are created?...Films and Games!?- The answer, is very simple it 's in the name of patience.
~ Deyth Banger
If you can't ignore imperfections, then your imaginary ideal soulmate will always remain pending till you grow old and die.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
~ Harry S Truman