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Quotes About Imagination

The epicenter of creativity and imagination should be the Church, reflecting the character and glory of God.
~ Erwin McManus
A picture is first of all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy.
~ Edgar Degas
Experience, the only logic sure to convince a diseased imagination and restore it to rugged health.
~ Mark Twain
The disclosure of a new fact, the leap forward, the conquest over yesterday's ignorance, is an act not of reason but of imagination, of intuition.
~ Charles Nicolle
I, myself, have had many failures and I've learned that if you are not failing a lot, you are probably not being as creative as you could be -you aren't stretching your imagination.
~ John Backus
The pretended desires of many to behold the glory of Christ in heaven, who have no view of it by faith while they are here in this world, are nothing but self-deceiving imaginations.
~ John Owen
Isn't it true that it's not people who meet, but rather the shadows cast by their imaginations?
~ Pascal Mercier
The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after death of the vegetative body.
~ William Blake
One of the side effects of losing intimacy with God is that at some point we stop doing ministry out of imagination and we begin doing it out of memory.
~ Bill Johnson
Don't let your imagination take you by surprise.
~ Jimi Hendrix
Rigor is not a substitute for imagination.
~ Gary A. Klein
Though progress starts with the imagination, only work can make things happen. And work itself works best when fueled, again by the imagination.
~ Theodore Levitt
God and the imagination are one.
~ Wallace Stevens
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun
~ Pablo Picasso
Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.
~ Terry Pratchett
Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.
~ Terry Brooks
I am very frustrated by fear of imagination, I don't think that's healthy.
~ J.K. Rowling
Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.
~ Edward Abbey
Research, though toilsome, is easy; imagination, though delightful, is difficult.
~ A. C. Bradley
Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality.
~ Jean Baudrillard
As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
Always have a vivid imagination, for you never know when you might need it.
~ J. K. Rowling
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimagininative.
~ Oscar Wilde
The world would never amount to a hill of beans if people didn't use their imaginations to think of the impossible.
~ Pete Seeger