Quotes About Imagination

All of us, writers and non-writers alike, have incredible well-springs of personal experience and history. And we also have imagination - which I think is a kind of human miracle.

Imagination needs to be fed.

The greatest poet who ever wrote about rowing is Virgil, the greatest historian is Thucydides, but the greatest imagination ever to turn its attention to the sport is that of painter, Thomas Eakins.

The moon likes secrets," Meran said. "And secret things. She lets mysteries bleed into her shadows and leaves us to ask whether they originated from otherworlds, or from our own imaginations.

Chess truly uncovers whether or not someone has imagination and takes initiative.

Not everything you hear about yourself can be considered good publicity. And if you have delicate sensibilities, the currycomb of public imagination frequently rubs your vanities the wrong way.

The imagination has resources and intimations we don't even know about.

Speaking as a novelist myself, I know that members of our profession live in our imaginations as much or more as we inhabit what people call 'the real world.

As an actor you use your imagination to put yourself in the shoes of bad guy characters. You create a story as to why you are doing it. You are finding what drives people to do this.

A great deal of phenomenal experience has fostered in me a flexibility of the mind and imagination that some might call madness

The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.

Affliction is more apt to suffocate the imagination than to stimulate it.

I'm fairly certain. I could be some ghastly hallucination, a figment of my own imagination

I'm kind of surprised that so many of those other books were almost exactly like mine. They even follow the form. There were some books that even copied the stamp. It shows so little imagination.

Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.

Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree that surpasses one's enduring powers of imagination. Its inefficiency therefore remains unnoticed.

Worry is a misuse of your imagination.

Well-bred English people never have imagination.

To search for unasked questions, plus questions to put to already acquired but unsought answers, it is vital to give full play to the imagination. That is the way to create truly original science.

The art of movies is to allow the audience to suspend their disbelief. They need to use their imaginations.

The imagination is not the consolation people pretend. It can even be regarded as the admission of some sort of failure.

What is new about Barthes's posthumous reputation is the view of him as a writer whose books of criticism and personal musings must be admired as serious and beautiful works of the imagination.

Because they have so little, children must rely on imagination rather than experience.

Imagination is built upon knowledge.