Quotes About Imagination

Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.

If we nourish imagination, we nourish everything else.

the virtue of imagination has this in common with the virtue of courage. Without it, you are less good: with it, you are not necessarily better.

Great writers zealously learn the craft of their profession so they can release the power and the depth of their imagination and experience.

I think if you're a competent actor with a good imagination, and if it's on the page, it makes your job a lot easier.

Without the definiteness of sculpture and painting, music is, for that very reason, far more suggestive. Like Milton's Eve, an outline, an impulse, is furnished, and the imagination does the rest.

Shame can kill the imagination. It's hard to keep writing in the face of cultural derision.

I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination.

Two thousand years ago, five thousand, they didn't have a word for imagination, and faith was the best they could come up with for a pretty solemn bunch of followers.

Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.

The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem.

Your imagination is your most important tool, as an actor, as cheesy as that sounds.

Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?

I grew up in Honolulu. It's not the ballet cultural mecca by any stretch of the imagination. People are much more familiar with hula than they are with ballet.

To call someone 'anti-American', indeed, to be anti-American, is not just racist, it's a failure of the imagination.

I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination.

Imagination is a licensed trespasser: it has no fear of dogs, but may climb over walls and peep in at windows with impunity.

A long poem is a test of invention which I take to be the Polar star of poetry, as fancy is the sails, and imagination the rudder.

Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine.

Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl in the American imagination; if the United States is one of the most venal nations on Earth, it is also one of the most earnestly idealistic.

We have all lost our possessions and many of us our homes," he said. "But these losses, severe though they may seem, remind us of what no person can take, and that is our minds and our imaginations.

We learn to curb our will and keep our overt actions within the bounds of humanity, long before we can subdue our sentiments and imaginations to the same mild tone.

It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income.

Faith is a very clever concept. We invented God from our imagination and we use faith to justify His absence from reality.