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Quotes About Imagination

Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.
~ Shel Silverstein
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
~ Anais Nin
She had the loaded handbag of someone who camps out and seldom goes home, or who imagines life must be full of emergencies.
~ Mavis Gallant
Dreaming is not enough. You have to go a step further and use your imagination to visualize, with intent! Forget everything you've ever been taught, and believe it will happen, just as you imagined it. That is the secret. That is the mystery of life.
~ Unknown
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
~ Samuel Butler
It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief
~ Lionel Trilling
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
~ Dr Seuss
We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.
~ Blaise Pascal
One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and interesting ways.
~ Peter McWilliams
The secret of life is in art.
~ Oscar Wilde
She realized as a girl of eight that if she sat down and wrote her stories, she could escape the parts of life she didn't like, embroider the parts she did and thus control the life she had.
~ Unknown
Dreams are necessary to life.
~ Anais Nin
Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.
~ Julia Cameron
I certainly don't regret my experiences because without them, I couldn't imagine who or where I would be today. Life is an amazing gift to those who have overcome great obstacles, and attitude is everything!
~ Sasha Azevedo
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
~ Plato
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
~ Oscar Wilde
Hold fast to your dreams, for without them life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
~ Langston Hughes
Those of us we have been true readers all our life fully realize the enormous extension of our being which we owe to authors.
~ Unknown
The true object of all human life is play.
~ Unknown
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
~ Danny Kaye
If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. ... I get most joy in life out of music.
~ Albert Einstein
Nothing is unthinkable, nothing impossible to the balanced person, provided it comes out of the needs of life and is dedicated to life's further development
~ Lewis Mumford
The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.
~ Unknown
Life in a box is better than no life at all ... I expect.
~ Tom Stoppard