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Quotes About Imagination

No reality has the power to dispel a dream.
~ Daniel Handler
Imagination that compares and contrasts with what is around as well as what is better and worse is the living power and prime agent of all human perception judgement and emotional reaction.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The power of monsters is, it is a way of giving almost tangible substance to fears, beliefs, things that aren't real. You can coalesce it and draw it, or describe it, and it's a monster.
~ Stephen R. Bissette
As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius - the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Even now, nature is the only flame, on which the poetic spirit feeds; from it alone it draws all its power, to it alone it speaks even in the artificial, in the man engaged in culture.
~ Friedrich Schiller
Images have a unique power to impart that which is beyond words.
~ William Shirley
Will without power is like children playing at soldiers.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Imagination is an abuse of power.
~ Johannes Grenzfurthner
A drainless shower Of light is poesy: 'tis the supreme of power; 'Tis might half slumbering on its own right arm.
~ John Keats
In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith to show their powers of painting.
~ John Ruskin
The first day at the power plant I found myself photographing some steam vents on the roof of the structure. And I remember consciously thinking that they were just like trees but they were metal.
~ John Sexton
I've always been inspired by Don Quixote as a role model of sorts, of the power of books to sort of make you insane in maybe a beautiful way.
~ Jonathan Ames
...She's understood the power of stories. Their magical ability to refill the wounded part of people.
~ Kate Morton
Far more than any other power, imagination is what sets human beings apart from every other species on earth.
~ Ken Robinson
Keep dreaming, wishing and planning. There's immeasurable power in it.
~ Laura Smith
Recollections of early childhood bear comparison to fairy tales, and ... youth remains an unknown country to whose bourn no traveler returns except as the agent of a foreign power.
~ Lewis H. Lapham
In principle, any abstraction of the object is allowed which has a sufficiently strong creative power behind it.
~ Max Beckmann
An idea can be greater than the Sun, because with an intelligent idea, man can discover the way to create another sun! Idea is the greatest power in this universe!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Novels function and the power of novels function because of their stories.
~ Mohsin Hamid
Ideas... they have the power
~ Napoleon Hill
How do we see physically? No differently that we do in our consciousness - by means of the productive power of imagination. Consciousness is the eye and ear, the sense for inner and outer meaning.
~ Novalis
Every original poet has a new insight, or rather introduces a new power.
~ Paul Fry
To an imagination of any scope the most far reaching form of power is not money, it is the command of ideas
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
When we open our minds to the unlimited creative power, we will call forth abundance and see and experience a whole new world.
~ Rhonda Byrne