I've always had a really active imagination. Lots of kids have imaginary friends. Mine just took on a rather demonic form.

I still have a photo on my wall of the greatest idol I will ever have in my life, and it's myself at eight. Because that's when the forces of imagination have the same value as the real world, when they're an instrument of survival: when my mother disappeared, and I imagined a mother. That was me at my best.

I've got an overactive brain. I enjoy work, I enjoy life, and I'm not good at relaxing. I've also never slept very much due to this overactive imagination and my brain constantly thinking.

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.

But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?

Growing up in the country, you're left to the wilds of your imagination.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Man lives by imagination.

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

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

All of the Antilles, every island, is an effort of memory: every mind, every racial biography culminating in amnesia and fog. Pieces of sunlight through the fog and sudden rainbows, arcs-en-ciel. That is the effort, the labour of the Antillean imagination, rebuilding its gods from bamboo frames, phrase by phrase.

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate.

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

I always imagined I could be what I wanted to be.

The new age of terrorism isn't on the battlefield: it's in your own backyard. Whether it's at a concert in France or a restaurant in the United States, terrorism doesn't have to happen in a military installation by any stretch of the imagination.

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

I feel very lucky to make a living from my imagination; I'm very grateful for that. I like that what I do is create. I'm feeling very lucky to have had the career I had. It's gone much longer and bigger than I ever thought it would be.

For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

People may think I'm trying something new by telling stories, but they're just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But really, I just continue using my imagination and creating. That's what I do.

Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

Illustrations can be a big window: a looking glass into the author's imagination.

Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

The human race is governed by its imagination.

Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else's ideas of who you can or can't become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a 'Keep Out' sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.

Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.

In an era of parental paranoia, lawsuit mania and testing frenzy, we are failing to inspire our children's curiosity, creativity, and imagination. We are denying them opportunities to tinker, discover, and explore - in short, to play.

When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be helping Scottish kids.

We know their names: Hippolyta, Antiope, Thessalia. But they were long thought to be just travelers' tales or products of the Greek storytelling imagination. A lot of scholars still argue that. But archaeology has now proven without a doubt that there really were women fitting the description that the Greeks gave us of Amazons and warrior women.

The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies.

To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination, and the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.

I think artists can influence only through making music that challenges people, excites them and flips them out. Music that repeats what you know in ever-decreasing derivation, that's unchallenging and unstimulating, deadens our minds, our imagination and our ability to see beyond the hell we find ourselves in.

I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.

A young imagination is bold, likes to make bigger leaps. It likes to, well, imagine that the dustbuster is a dinosaur; that the computer mouse is a hotrod; that the box is a cave; that the rawhide is a torch... or a baton... or something.

The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from everyday life.

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.