Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

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.

Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.

Imagination is a beast that has to be put in a cage.

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.

Ideas come from ordinary, everyday life. And from imagination. And from feelings. And from memories. Memories of dust in my sneakers and humming whitewalls down a hill called Monkey.

This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

To put yourself in another's place requires real imagination, but by doing so each Girl Scout will be able to love among others happily.

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

All of imagination - everything that we think, we feel, we sense - comes through the human brain. And once we create new patterns in this brain, once we shape the brain in a new way, it never returns to its original shape.

Edgy is fine - I'm not a prude by any stretch of the imagination - but what's wrong with a good ol' belly laugh? I miss that.

Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible.

Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too.

I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly imagine.

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.

No breed of cats in its proper condition can by any stretch of the imagination be thought of as even slightly ungraceful - a record against which must be pitted the depressing spectacle of impossibly flattened bulldogs, grotesquely elongated dachshunds, hideously shapeless and shaggy Airedales, and the like.

You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination.

If you're not a daydreamer, you haven't got any imagination.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

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

When I got large enough to go to work, while employed I was reflecting on many things that would present themselves to my imagination; and whenever an opportunity occurred of looking at a book, when the school-children were getting their lessons, I would find many things that the fertility of my own imagination had depicted to me before.

Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.

Without imagination and without love, life can be pretty bleak. I think having both will get you through the most dire of situations.

I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.

He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

Doubt is the father of invention.

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.

You can't do it unless you can imagine it.

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

I do not stick to rules when cooking. I rely on my imagination.

My life has been a gift up to this point, and I've been blessed beyond my wildest imagination. And wherever this ride takes me is where I'm going.

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

I had a very happy childhood, but I still used my imagination as a leisure resort.

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

Cooking with kids is not just about ingredients, recipes, and cooking. It's about harnessing imagination, empowerment, and creativity.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.

I'm a dreamer with lots of energy and a vivid imagination. That's the recipe for becoming an entertainer.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

Cinema is a world of imagination.

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.

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.