Imagination - Quotes & Sayings

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

Salvador Dali

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.

Sylvia Plath

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.

Abraham Verghese

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

Timothy Spall

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.

David Bailey

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.

Jerry Spinelli

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

Adam Smith

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

Carl Jung

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.

Juliette Gordon Low

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

Edward Hopper

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.

Jay S. Walker

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.

Carol Burnett

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

Ida Tarbell

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

Joyce Cary

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

Richard Dawkins

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.

Maria Callas

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.

H. P. Lovecraft

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.

Maimonides

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

David Cassidy

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

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

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

William Godwin

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.

Nat Turner

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.

L. Frank Baum

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

Tiya Sircar

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

J. G. Ballard

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

Washington Irving

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

Christopher Isherwood

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

William Shakespeare

Doubt is the father of invention.

Ambrose Bierce

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

Henry David Thoreau

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

George Lucas

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

Julius Caesar

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

Tom Waits

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

Akshay Kumar

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.

Sean Hannity

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

Ernest Hemingway

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.

H. L. Mencken

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

Geraldine McCaughrean

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

e. e. cummings

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

Guy Fieri

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

Tom Stoppard

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Ranbir Kapoor

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

Goldie Hawn

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

Charlie Chaplin

What is now proved was once only imagined.

William Blake

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

William Blake

Cinema is a world of imagination.

Marjane Satrapi

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.

Edgar Degas

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.

Ray Bradbury