Quotes About Imagination

Great art picks up where nature ends.

Nothing much happens without a dream. For something really great to happen, it takes a really great dream.

The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness.

Imagination has a great deal to do with winning.

Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it.

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

Every great idea is on the verge of being stupid.

Waiting in line is a great opportunity to meet people, daydream, or play.

We should be building great things that don't exist.

The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.

A dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope.

A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.

Nothing, believe me, nothing is more satisfying to me personally than getting a great idea and then beatin' it to death.

I see people as the nucleus of a great idea that hasn't come to be yet.

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.

Behind every great achievement is a dreamer of great dreams.

All great art contains an element of the irrational.

The child and the great artist -- these alone receive the sensation fresh as it was at the beginning of the world.

Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist *can* come from *anywhere*.

All great ideas start as weird ideas. What now seems obvious, early on, is not obvious to anybody.

To recognize great talent, we must encourage dreamers.

As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things.

To get a great idea, come up with lots of them.

Books make great gifts because you don't have to plug them in.