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Quotes About Imagination

Art is ruled uniquely by the imagination.
~ Benedetto Croce
Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all.
~ Franklin P. Adams
When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.
~ Émile Coué
We have to devise means of making known the facts in such a way as to touch the imagination of the world
~ Eglantyne Jebb
We suffer more in imagination than in reality.
~ Seneca the Younger
Imagination is the most powerful force in the universe.
~ Albert Einstein
No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.
~ Edward Hopper
What you contemplate, you touch. What you enter into in imagination, you make yourself one with.
~ Dion Fortune
Imagination makes you see all sorts of things.
~ Georgia O'Keeffe
Too many simple green salads suffer from a lack of imagination.
~ JAMES BEARD
The great majority of the things we now make ourselves panicked about are self-created 'dangers' that exist almost entirely in our own imaginations.
~ Albert Ellis
It is through the imagination that the formless takes form.
~ Catherine Ponder
Digital imaging allows both groups to rise above the limitations of mess and clutter and mechanics, and apply our talents to creating images limited only by our imaginations.
~ Buffy Sainte-Marie
When I was on my own in a hotel room in Romania, I had the imagination to keep myself occupied.
~ Rhona Mitra
Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
At every level the greatest obstacle to transforming the world is that we lack the clarity and imagination to conceive that it could be different
~ Roberto Unger
Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity.
~ Chinua Achebe
The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.
~ Stephen Nachmanovitch
What's a mediator you ask? Oh, a person who acts as a liason between the living and the dead. Hey, wait a minute...what're you doing with that strait jacket?-Suze Simon's imagination
~ Meg Cabot
Give children toys that are powered by their imagination, not by batteries.
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The really great writers are people like Emily Brontë who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.
~ James A. Michener
Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance.
~ Eric Temple Bell
The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.
~ Mary Caroline Richards