Quotes About Imagination

Artists are dishonest creatures really. They foist their version of reality upon us while making it all up. Writers, painters, musicians, auteurs—they're all the same.

Some people believe in imaginary friends. I believe in imaginary numbers.

Children throw tantrums because they've imagined their 'father in heaven' does so. And because, their inherited religious book has, in written, shown them so.

Have any sheep been seen walking out of the Library with seagoing adventurers clinging to their wool?

Although Lewis Carroll thought of The Hunting of the Snark as a nonsense ballad for children, it is hard to imagine - in fact one shudders to imagine - a child of today reading and enjoying it.

But on the other hand, I don't actively seek out stories or hunt them down.

Watching a movie should be like hunting. Out of context, every image of the cinema is yours for a split second. Take them before they bury it.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

Our aim is not merely to make the child understand, and still less to force him to memorize, but so to touch his imagination as to enthuse him to his innermost core.

The actor must use his imagination to be able to answer all questions (when, where, why, how). Make the make-believer existence more definite.

I have visualised my imagination so clearly and so consistently that it has manifested itself into my reality.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Designing a dream city is easy; rebuilding a living one takes imagination.

Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations.

We are bound only by the limits of our imaginations.

To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.

How else would God speak to me, if not through my imagination?

Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.

I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.

Since most problems are created by our imagination and are thus imaginary, all we need are imaginary solutions.

I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination.