Quotes About Imagination

Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.

Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.

[Great artists] do not copy what they see, but what they desire.

I'm interested in that hybrid - the place between the real world and my imagination. There's a friction that's created between the things we imagine and the things that exist.

Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will.

The illusion of magic is an idealistic fantasy; it exists only in the imagination of the spectator.

Crossing too many t's and dotting too many i's makes a room look overdone and tiresome. One should create something that fires the imagination without overemphasis.

my mind is a world in itself, which I have peopled with my own creatures.

I worry that free imagination is overvalued, and I think this carries risks.

A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.

Imagination builds the image of the self, and thought then functions within its shadows. From this self-concept grows the conflict between what is and what should be, the conflict in duality.

If you can read and have more imagination than a doorknob, what need do you have for a 'movie version' of a novel?

Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.

An act of imagination is an act of self-acceptance.

Do not confuse fantasy with imagination; the former consumes itself in daydreaming, the latter stimulates creativity in the arts and in the sciences.

No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.

Few topographical boundaries can rival the frontiers of the mind.

The Right Honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.

Mere imagination would indeed be mere trifling; only no imagination is mere .

Thinking is different from perceiving and is held to be in part imagination, in part judgment