logo

Quotes About Imagination

Ridley creates a very immersive world, so when you walk up to a Ridley Scott film set you're in Ridley Scott's imagination, and it's a really comfortable, cool place to be.
~ Chiwetel Ejiofor
The imagination can be happy in places where the whole man is not.
~ Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Extraordinary imagination, especially in a witch world. Also friendship.
~ J. K. Rowling
There are real facts in my poems, but facts mixed up in the perverse stubborn stew of imagination, add a pinch or two of revenge and retribution, a dash of amplification and reparation.
~ Philip Schultz
A fanatical imagination cannot regard God as just unless he is represented as infinitely cruel.
~ George Santayana
What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Imagination, that dost so abstract us That we are not aware, not even when A thousand trumpets sound about our ears!
~ Dante Alighieri
Anything imagined can be made real ... given sufficient genius.
~ Brian Herbert
It is our imagination, not our conscience, which makes us better than the beasts of the field.
~ Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
Castle is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
~ Nathan Fillion
The action movie, the thriller and the drama all have safety nets under them. But not the horror film. The horror film can sink to an abyss far darker than the imagination can ever reach.
~ Marcus Dunstan
The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting.
~ Thomas Kinkade
That there were other worlds, invisible, unknown, beyond imagination even, was a revelation to him.
~ Kim Edwards
With music and art, I can create the kind of world in which I wish to live.
~ Joseph Curiale
I think often in film we limit our imaginations a little - well, quite a lot, actually things get quite formulaic.
~ Hugo Weaving
The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece.
~ Gilbert Murray
For every person who can imagine a possibility there are tens of thousands who are stuck in the greased grooves of history.
~ Gary Hamel
Imagination guides you in your contacts with individuals and crowds, so you can discover new concepts and approaches.
~ Wilferd Peterson
You never quite know what's going to strike your imagination, or something that won't going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and this was one for me.
~ Peter Shaffer
I was very attracted to the way that Zen did not go into the imagination land. And now I've forgotten what your first question was and how we were going to tie this together.
~ Brad Warner
I can find no room in my cosmos for a deity save as a waste product of human weakness, the excrement of the imagination.
~ Norman Douglas
I never had the financial means that the media said I had. I laugh when I hear the amounts, $400 million, $800 million. Where do they get this imagination?
~ Jean-Claude Duvalier
The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A painting is above all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy. If, at a later stage, he wants to add two or three touches from nature, of course it doesn't spoil anything.
~ Edgar Degas