Quotes About Imagination

To Vik Lovell who told me dragons did not exist, then led me to their lairs ...

It's the truth, even if it didn't happen... ...if they don't exist, how can a man see them?

He couldn't seem to get his teeth into anything. Except books. The things in books was darn near more real to him than the things breathing and eating.

sometimes reading the same page over and over, until one sleepy afternoon something clicked, like a lock unlocking, and she saw those printed doors swing open on a vast house of words.

Always stay in your own movie.

But if they don't exist, how can a man see them?

If they don't exist, how can a man see them?

It would be unfair to say that I prefer the back of a book to its contents, but it is true that the sight of a lot of books gives me the hope that I may some day read them, which sometimes develops into the belief that I have read them.

Everybody who writes about Blake begins by saying that he was a visionary. It is a vague term. All artists, even the most realistic, start with some kind of vision - that is what leads them to select what they need from the infinite diversity of appearances.

In fact, whatever exists in the universe, in essence, in appearance, in the imagination, the painter has first in his mind and then in his hands ... it lies in his power to create them . . .

Photography is the power of observation, not the application of technology.

Such is the power of imagination, that even a chimerical pleasure in expectation affects us more than a solid pleasure in possession.

Dreams have the power to make real what the heart desires.

It is the power of music to carry one directly into the mental state of the composer.

The only trouble with this world today lies in our lack of understanding of the power of imagination.

Remember - no limitation can be placed on you by any one but yourself. With your imagination you have a unique ability to draw on an infinite source of supply. There is power in thought.

I think maybe, if I could be a Canadian super hero, I'd have some kind of freezing power and some sort of maple syrup weapon. Could be a little sticky.

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.

Mozart shows a creative power of such magnitude that one can virtually say that he tossed out of himself one great masterpiece after another.

Every now and then I'll do little things, a short story or something, that doesn't have any fantastical elements, but mostly I like the power of playing God and I like to imagine things.

The Subconscious mind can not tell the difference between what's real and what's imagined.

Your imaginings can have as much power over you as your reality, or even more.

You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories.