Quotes About Imagination

Poetry can do a lot of things to people. I mean it can improve your imagination. It can take you to new places. It can give you this incredible form of verbal pleasure.

I would admit that poetry is something more than mere communication and that if that 'something more' could be abstracted from the whole, it might well prove to be that which makes the whole a poem.

I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

Politics has always been the art of the possible. Today it's too often the art of the probable - tinkering around the edges without any greater vision, without a sense of optimism and imagination.

If politics is the art of the possible, theatre is the art of the impossible.

Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.

Unless we insist that politics is imagination and mind, we will learn that imagination and mind are politics, and of a kind we will not like.

One cannot build life from refrigerators, politics, credit statements and crossword puzzles. That is impossible. Nor can one exist for any length of time without poetry, without color, without love.

If everyone would paint, political re-education would be unnecessary.

If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.

If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

ARENA, n. In politics, an imaginary rat-pit in which the statesman wrestles with his record.

Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.

The person with the biggest dreams is more powerful than the person with all the answers.

The great secret is a controlled imagination and a well-sustained attention, firmly and repeatedly focused on the object to be accomplished.

Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.

You are capable of much more than you are presently thinking, imagining, doing or being.

Some people look at the world and say 'why?' Some people look at the world and say 'why not?'

The best thing you can do is follow your dreams

Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think.

It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture, painting, interior design, or architecture. I just wanted to create something.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

If we experienced life through the eyes of a child, everything would be magical and extraordinary. Let our curiosity, adventure and wonder of life never end.