Quotes about Imagination

“She has no imagination and that means no compassion.”

“I learned this through Iron Man - it really doesn't matter what I think about who he is because everybody has such a huge idea about what they think the guy is. You can't just rely on your instincts and your imagination, you have to match up with what the expectations are from the people.”

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

“My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form, whether visual, intellectual or musical.”

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

“The imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.”

“While F.D.R. once told Americans that we have nothing to fear but fear itself, Mr. Ashcroft is delighted to play the part of Fear Itself, an assignment in which he lets his imagination run riot.”

“See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.”

“The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.”

“My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me.”

“They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”

“The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.”

“Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process; yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole.”

“I think we're all a little afraid of the dark. If you lived in the country, as I did, there's nothing quite like country dark, which was really black. And as a child, your imagination runs wild.”

“Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.”

“It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.”

“Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.”

“The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem.”

“When I was on my own in a hotel room in Romania, I had the imagination to keep myself occupied.”

“There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.”

“Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.”