Quotes about Imagination

“My greatest strength as a child, I realize now, was my imagination. While every other kid was reading and writing, I had seven whole hours a day to practice my imagination. When do you get that space in your life, ever?”

“People can't just listen to the music and have their own imagination and take them where they wanna go.”

“Genius is an African who dreams up snow.”

“Imagination is the eye of the soul.”

“The man who has no imagination has no wings.”

“To me, it's far more efficient to mobilize the imagination. It's far more efficient to hear a creaking step, for example, than to see the face of a monster, which usually looks ridiculous, and where you know that the blood is ketchup.”

“On 'Into The Wild' I spent months risking my life and on 'Speed Racer' I spent 60 days acting in front of a green screen. No danger to my physical self, but I sure had to use my imagination.”

“I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.”

“I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination.”

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

“If you have a good inner life, you don't get lonely. I've got a good imagination. I don't miss romance.”

“What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.”

“Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.”

“Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination.”

“Science does not know its debt to imagination.”

“A place makes a deep impression on you when you're young. It lives with you. It's like your childhood. It fertilises the imagination.”

“In many cases your imagination is much more effective than what can be shown. It primes you to know something is about to happen - the anticipation and anxiety is worse than what ends up happening.”

“Imagination is the true magic carpet.”

“Use your imagination. Look around the kitchen and see what you can use.”

“Only in your imagination can you revise.”

“For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.”