Quotes About Imagination

Can imagination act Perpendicular to fact? Can it be a kite that flies Till the Earth , umbrella-wise, Folds and drops away from sight?

I hate to recreate the whole world into my imagination.

I think that is the secret of great acting. You have to bring your imagination to the party. You've got to have a great imagination.

The way I think of the psychedelics is, they are catalysts to the imagination.

A financer is a pawnbroker with an imagination.

Physical reality springs from the imagination, which follows the path of your beliefs

I think the essence of family is that you have to agree to it, and then supply, out of your imagination and capacity for loyalty, the contents of it.

One should never turn one's back on a vivid imagination.

The imagination is a dimension of nonlocal information

Those who can't imagine change reveal the deficits of their imaginations, not the difficulty of change.

The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form.

To be an actor or actress, you have to feel on a deep level and tap into emotions that you've never felt before. You're imagining how something would feel. You have to use your imagination so much.

Im the youngest of four, but my closest sibling is 10 years older. I had a lot of imagination. I was running around playing little games by myself. But I never thought I was going to be an actor.

Let none count themselves wise who have not with the nerves of their imagination felt the pain of the vivisected.

It is hard for people who have not lived in Los Angeles to realize how radically the Santa Ana figures in the local imagination. ... The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.

It is seldom that the imagination is disappointed in the 'ancestral piles' of England.

Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call sages, and those who act upon it, we call artists.

I don't know if we ever have enough distance to "see" our own trajectory. We're in the muddled middle of it. Who knows what will last, what poems will take hold of the imaginations of the future.

Our imagination often is more horrifying than being shown something.

I'll not punish you for having an imagination.

Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect.

Other people are as alive as you are. Cruelty is a failure of imagination.

Common sense is usually lack of imagination, and imagination is usually lack of common sense.

Personally there is first: imagination; second: the act of writing - and third: the act/act of vocalizing.