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Quotes About Imagination

It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination.
~ Edward Dahlberg
In chess, as played by a good player, logic and imagination must go hand in hand, compensating each other.
~ Jose Raul Capablanca
Imagination offers people consolation for what they cannot be, and humor for what they actually are.
~ Albert Camus
There are three things you need to live abundantly: awareness, imagination and gratitude.
~ Sonia Choquette
Disneyland would be a world of Americans, past and present, seen through the eyes of my imagination--a place of warmth and nostalgia, of illusion and color and delight.
~ Walt Disney
If you get an image try to destroy it.
~ Richard Diebenkorn
Art is the imagination at play in the field of time. Let yourself play.
~ Julia Cameron
For me, childhood roaming was what developed self-reliance, a sense of direction and adventure, imagination, a will to explore, to be able to get a little lost and then figure out the way back.
~ Rebecca Solnit
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge.
~ Robert Fulghum
The human race is governed by its imagination.
~ Napoleon
For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.
~ Ramana Maharshi
The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.
~ Terence McKenna
Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.
~ Ned Rorem
All that you can imagine you already know.
~ Stephen Spender
Capability means imagination.
~ Napoleon Hill
The white imagination is sure something when it comes to blacks.
~ Josephine Baker
I dislike frontiers, political or intellectual, and I find that ignoring them is an essential catalyst for creative thought. Ideas should flow without hindrance in their natural course.
~ Michael Atiyah
The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
~ Cesare Pavese
Things seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination--except that it was all reality.
~ Gary Paulsen
The function of the flashback is Freudian...You have to let them wander like the imagination or like a dream.
~ Sergio Leone
Imagination is the beginning of creation.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The more you know, the more you can create. There's no end to imagination in the kitchen.
~ Julia Child
The difference between great and average is, mostly, having the imagination and zeal to re-create yourself daily.
~ Tom Peters