Quotes about Imagination

“There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.”

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

“Irish novelist John Banville has a creepy, introverted imagination.”

“Imagination needs to be fed.”

“I always wanted to be a writer, and I did want to be a novelist. In college I took a couple of classes that taught me I would never be a novelist. I discovered I had no imagination. My short stories were always thinly veiled memoir.”

“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.”

“I've got quite a vivid imagination and I'm easily overwhelmed by sensations and things that are beautiful or scary. I don't think I've ever seen a ghost - I think I'm probably haunted by my own ghosts than real ones.”

“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.”

“Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. The best ones leave a tantalising gap between the pictures and the words, a gap that is filled by the reader's imagination, adding so much to the excitement of reading a book.”

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

“You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.”

“A good comic explores the imagination, but it's always got to have those notes of truth running through it.”

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

“I really like Kickstarter because you don't have to be a Medici to fund the arts and sciences or to get behind a big idea or a person that sparks your imagination. It's a type of microfunding directed toward creators.”

“To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.”

“One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.”

“God has given us an imagination, and our imagination is really the principle tool from which all creativity and artistry comes from.”

“Pulp existed for 12 years before we got famous. Now, you could say that was just lack of imagination, but it's some kind of quality isn't it? Tenacity. You could also say it was sloth.”

“You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.”

“I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination.”

“Mine is a European imagination, shaped largely by my very promiscuous reading in German, French, English and, with greater difficulty, Italian.”