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Quotes About Imagination

All poetic inspiration is but dream interpretation.
~ Hans Sachs
Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater.
~ James Broughton
What the artist must render is a living moment somehow, a living moment actually in action or an inward experience.
~ Joseph Campbell
the mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future
~ Joseph Conrad
Imagination is the source of all human achievement.
~ Ken Robinson
The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
~ Lily Tomlin
We have our brush and colors - paint Paradise and in we go.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
There is no wide road which leads to the Muses.
~ Propertius
When you first awaken or before drifting off to sleep, quiet your mind, lift up your heart, muse, mull over, make discoveries. Consider, conceive, create, connect, concede that it all starts within.
~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
The engineers of the future will be poets.
~ Terence McKenna
It's better to look at the sky than live there
~ Truman Capote
I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
And people who don't dream, who don't have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can't imagine that.
~ Stephen King
Every disability is imagined. Every achievement is an experience.
~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi
Wonderful things start to happen when you dream outside of your sleep.
~ Richard Wilkins
Genius is that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates.
~ Samuel Johnson
Etch out the future on your own design.
~ Thomas Dolby
if you just go on dreaming then it stays a dream and becomes stale and dead. But first to dream and then to do isn't that the way to make a dream come true
~ Meindert DeJong
I know writers have to be crazy. But more than that that, they have to get made and stay mad. If things don't make a writer mad, he'll end up writing Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottantail.
~ Leon Uris, Mitla Pass
If you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.
~ Werner Herzog
All the fun is locking horns with impossibilities.
~ Claes Oldenburg
The little ones still remember how to use the power of their imagination. They are still engaged in the utilization of their imagination, that is one of the reasons that keeps them so exhilarated.
~ Esther Hicks
To live is to dream, and to dream pleasantly is to be wise.
~ Friedrich Schiller