Quotes about Imagination

“When I was a young person I went to the university and I learned a rational language, to think with the left side of the brain. But in the right side of the brain you have intuition and imagination. Words are not the truth; they indicate the way to go, but you need to go alone, in silence. Symbols have a language that kills the words.”

“I can't satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as an art form as much as it used to be.”

“Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.”

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

“Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made.”

“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.”

“I love costumes. I love getting dressed up because it really helps my imagination make the leap to believe that I am who I say I am.”

“Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.”

“I came from a childhood where I spent a lot of time alone and a lot of time just living with my imagination, and a certain amount of the adult world was kind of alienating.”

“One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.”

“Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?”

“Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.”

“Love is based on imagination.”

“Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.”

“The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.”

“Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.”

“Self-awareness is not the same thing as self-approval, any more than imagination is the same thing as day-dreaming.”

“This world is but a canvas to our imagination.”

“In the beginning, we had a great deal of freedom, and Jerry wrote completely out of his imagination - very, very freely. We even had no editorial supervision to speak of, because they were in such a rush to get the thing in before deadline. But later on we were restricted.”

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

“A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.”