So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.
~By Diana Krall ~
The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.
~By Robert Collier ~
Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
~By Jessamyn West ~
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
~By Sylvia Plath ~
On the one hand, the guns were there to help capture the imagination of the people. But more important, since we knew that you couldn't observe the police without guns, we took our guns with us to let the police know that we have an equalizer.
~By Bobby Seale ~
If you don't pay attention and if your imagination isn't pretty much engaged, you're going to miss things and you're going to miss opportunities for it to be as compelling and as creepy as it can be.
~By Bruce Greenwood ~
Many Nobel Prizes are awaiting good research to understand and explain the many mysteries of our bodies, such as the basic mechanism of memory or imagination.
~By John Cameron ~
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
~By William Blake ~
If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
~By Karl Kraus ~
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
~By Joseph Joubert ~
Because of my faith and my imagination, I was able to enjoy my childhood, even though it was tough.
~By Donna Brazile ~
Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.
~By Christopher Fry ~
People know that they're going to see something which is entertaining but challenging as well because of the form it's in. It's dance theatre and it requires you to use your imagination - it's not straight forward.
~By Matthew Bourne ~
There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.
~By Leigh Hunt ~
I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be.
~By Whoopi Goldberg ~
Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.
~By Michael Tippett ~
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
~By Norman Vincent Peale ~
When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.
~By Ahmet Zappa ~
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
~By Gloria Steinem ~
George has only got to ring me. His imagination is so wonderful, I'd do any character he might create.
~By Peter Mayhew ~
You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.
~By Jerry Gillies ~
Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.
~By Edgar Rice Burroghs ~
Anything can happen in SF. And the fact that nothing ever does happen in SF is only due to the poverty of our imaginations, we who write it or edit it or read it. But SF can in principle deal with anything.
~By John Sladek ~
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
~By Muhammad Ali ~
Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.
~By Al Gore ~
Few people have the imagination for reality.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
We have to instill in them the skills they need to succeed at a young age and open up their imaginations to the very real opportunities they can be afforded if they put their minds to it.
~By Michael N. Castle ~
Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.
~By Terry Brooks ~
Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
~By Nadine Gordimer ~
Agents and producers have to get you into a box to accommodate their limited imaginations.
~By Imelda Staunton ~
I had a pretty sexual imagination for a kid.
~By Janet Jackson ~
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
~By Joseph Addison ~
Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.
~By Claude Bernard ~
We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.
~By Thomas Merton ~
To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
~By George Jean Nathan ~
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
~By Ursula K. Le Guin ~
Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more strength, as I was no longer taken to school by the nurse, but instead had myself to protect my brother, two years my junior.
~By Georg Brandes ~
And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five.
~By James Merrill ~
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
~By Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
~By Eduard Hanslick ~
One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.
~By Stella Adler ~
Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.
~By Les Baxter ~
Use your imagination, and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care.
~By Mark Haddon ~
Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, "Just watch!"
~By Bill Bradley ~
But there is so much more to do for the city we love... a Dallas with roads as strong as our businesses, parks as beautiful as our children, a downtown as tall as our imagination.
~By Laura Miller ~
Science does not know its debt to imagination.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.
~By Eartha Kitt ~
Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.
~By Sofia Kovalevskaya ~
It's just a way of trying to get to a third thing that's not particular to any quote-unquote genre. It's been great for me; it's really opened me up and gotten me to use that part of my imagination. It's very scary in a lot of ways, and just as exciting.
~By Charlie Hunter ~
A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.
~By Ada Louise Huxtable ~
I loved the world of imagination.
~By R. A. Salvatore ~
Faith is spiritualized imagination.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.
~By Edward Abbey ~
Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination.
~By Tim Robbins ~
Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
~By C. S. Lewis ~
Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
~By Ian Mcewan ~
Imagination is the eye of the soul.
~By Joseph Joubert ~
Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.
~By Marquis de Sade ~
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
~By John Muir ~
First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
~By H. G. Wells ~
I mean, the most important thing to me is imagination.
~By Rob Walton ~
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
~By Albert Einstein ~
The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.
~By Karl Lagerfeld ~
When I was on my own in a hotel room in Romania, I had the imagination to keep myself occupied.
~By Rhona Mitra ~
When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.
~By Ellen Key ~
I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.
~By Andrew Wyeth ~
Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
~By Noam Chomsky ~
The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
~By Edmund Wilson ~
An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.
~By Maria Callas ~
The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.
~By Tony Robbins ~
If they want to talk about aliens and anything like that... that's part of the gift God gave us. That's what makes life exciting. We're pretty stuck, you know. What gives flight to our life is our imagination.
~By Michael Moriarty ~
We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.
~By Ray Bradbury ~
The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.
~By Alan Watts ~
The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.
~By Steven Spielberg ~
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.
~By Helen Rowland ~
One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.
~By Sam Levenson ~
I don't know if Jim was a major part of that or not. He is one of a small group of real storytellers. He has enormous imagination and ability to write. I'm glad he's coming back. It's going to be good for the show.
~By Matthew Ashford ~
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
~By Richard Wright ~
For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
~By Manuel Puig ~
The Jungian view of drama would be that it affects all of our imaginations and somehow taps into our hidden, ancient, primordial memories.
~By Jeremy Northam ~
I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you.
~By Terry Brooks ~
The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
~By Marquis de Sade ~
The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.
~By Henry James ~
He brought imagination to the story of the Creation.
~By Harvey Keitel ~
The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.
~By Elizabeth Drew ~
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
~By Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
~By John Keats ~
What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out.
~By Wynton Marsalis ~
Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that.
~By Robin Wright Penn ~
My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.
~By Clara Schumann ~
The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.
~By Mary Richards ~
Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.
~By Jacques Maritain ~
Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
~By Marquis de Sade ~
There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.
~By Milan Kundera ~
We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
~By Wallace Stevens ~
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