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Quotes About Imagination

Reality surpasses imagination; and we see, breathing, brightening, and moving before our eyes sights dearer to our hearts than any we ever beheld in the land of sleep.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
~ Marquis de Sade
The imagination, give it the least license, dives deeper and soars higher than Nature goes.
~ Henry David Thoreau
There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.
~ Edward de Bono
If you don't pay attention and if your imagination isn't pretty much engaged, you're going to miss things and you're going to miss opportunities for it to be as compelling and as creepy as it can be.
~ Bruce Greenwood
It is more important to let a child's imagination develop than it is to labor to inculcate in him or her some correct ethical point of view.
~ Padraic Colum
The living can assist the imagination of the dead.
~ William Butler Yeats
All paintings start with concept, which is another word for image or imagination. The mistake is to isolate the concept as if the idea did not need to be given permanent form.
~ Joseph Plaskett
It's beyond imagination until you actually get up and see it and experience it and feel it.
~ William C. McCool
Your imagination will create many friends
~ Grace Lin
Our imagination just needs space. It's all it needs, that moment where you just sort of stare into the distance where your brain gets to sort of somehow rise up.
~ Glen Hansard
A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.
~ Ada Louise Huxtable
Try drawing or painting a scene you're working on. Often this will help free up you imagination.
~ Kevin Henkes
Bid imagination run / Much on the Great Questioner; / What He can question, what if questioned I / Can with a fitting confidence reply.
~ William Butler Yeats
Pop music can get inside us and enter our memory bubbles. It provides those true Proustian moments, unlocking sensations, unlocking our imaginations. Music inspired me as a filmmaker.
~ Todd Haynes
The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
For after the subject is removed or the eye shut, we still retain an image of the things seen, though more obscure than when we see it...Imagination, therefore, is nothing more than decaying sense.
~ Thomas Hobbes
Can art be completely invented? It's a matter of shaping reality with the help of imagination.
~ Aharon Appelfeld
Further, for once, I like the idea that people who think I'm a constant voice for the furthering of the imagination have to see that interest in a more materialistic fashion.
~ Peter Sotos
And one of the things that I've always loves about children is their vivid, unrestrained, and far-reaching imaginations - the depth and breadth of their creativity.
~ Kevin Clash
Without freedom, there is no creation.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination
~ Daphne Zuniga
Imagination comes in after we have experience.
~ William Morris Hunt
Those who start in business with too little money are more likely to succeed than those who start with too much. Energy and imagination are the springboards to wealth creation.
~ Brian Tracy