Imagination Quotes

The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.

Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

When you're young you have no worries, no drama, only your imagination. It's the best!

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present, but only for the future, where streams of revenue play in his imagination.

The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.

It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.

You want to do something that shows some type individuality and talent and imagination - at the same time, you want to be truthful to the predecessors, because obviously the audience liked something about them and you have to replicate that experience to a certain extent.

Heaven knows, I've exposed myself in my novels through the use of fantasy and imagination... now my new book is about what really happened to me... not my heroines.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.

I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.

You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it.

Essentially, I'm untrained, so I just go with my imagination and try to put myself as solidly as I can into the shoes of whatever person I'm going to be playing.

Well, the fact is that one imagination is critically important, and if you have had your imagination stimulated by what is basically a variety of subjects, you are much more amenable to accepting, to understanding and interacting with the realities of the world.

It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the character that I'm playing.

I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.

The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting. I think getting beyond the four edges of an opportunity or challenge is one of the basic skills you need in business.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.

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.

Imagination needs to be fed.

I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.

Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind.

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

The costume that I wear on the show is a little snug and doesn't leave a whole lot to the imagination. I don't have a problem with it because of the way this character's been written.