Quotes About Imagination

Only if God can say things that make you struggle will you know that you have met a real God and not a figment of your imagination.

Creativity is a god who comes around only when he pleases, and it isn't very often. But when he does come around, he sits at my desk and folds his wings and I offer him whatever he wants.

We should treat children as God does us, who makes us happiest when He leaves us under the influence of innocent delusions.

What you have to do, you do with play. The universe is God's play.

(I was) happily contended to be climbing the heights and the clouds by the brush method.. ...rendering the God-spirit in the mountains.

God is the mind that imagines physical reality. We are each like a cell in that mind.

God may work in light, but we mortals work in pigment.

God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined.

God chose to introduce Himself to us in the first verse of Genesis as a Creator. And yet so few Christians really understand the power of creativity to influence the culture.

An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.

We are artists, because God is.

On the sixth day, God created the artist, realizing no doubt that He had far from exhausted the uses of color.

Imagination is our ability to see inwardly and picture there that which has not yet appeared outwardly. Imagination is God's gift to us.

No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else - an animal's incomplete compared to a person... and a person compared to God, who is complete only to be imaginary.

Building a dollhouse is a lot like writing a novel because you are God of the Universe.

It is wise to learn; it is God-like to create.

It is said that men may not be the dreams of the god, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men.

God is only a great imaginative experience.

New fiction writers are a special breed in my estimation, and I never dreamed that so many people would be interested, but I remember being led by God

Nothing about it interested me. Or about anything else, except making up stories. If literacy weren't so nearly universal, God knows what I'd be. A drain on the State, I shouldn't wonder.

All things are from God; and above all, reason and imagination and the great gifts of the mind. They are good in themselves; and we must not altogether forget their origin even in their perversion.

Perhaps history is a thing that would stop happening if God held His breath, or could be imagined as turning away to think of something else.

Our prisons are full of people who think they're Napoleon..or God.