Quotes about Imagination

“I had grown up as an Irish poet in a country where the distance between vision and imagination was not quite as wide as in some other countries.”

“You can't do it unless you can imagine it.”

“Some music comes from a real place; some music comes from your imagination. It's difficult to find out what's real and what's not, especially with the gangster stuff.”

“My imagination is closer to a child's imagination than to a grown-up's.”

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

“Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you're forced back on your own imagination.”

“I am more connected to the world of the imagination, but you don't have to have polio to do that.”

“All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.”

“We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.”

“You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.”

“Another side to me is this very sexual being. When I look back on my life, it's always been there. It's been there since I was 10 years old, having the imagination that I had.”

“I was a terrible athlete and a pretty bad student. I couldn't focus. My imagination was always racing.”

“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.”

“Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible.”

“I always won in my imagination. I always hit the game-winning shot, or I hit the free throw. Or if I missed, there was a lane violation, and I was given another one.”

“Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.”

“Dollar bills have absolutely no value except in our collective imagination, but everybody believes in the dollar bill.”

“I have an imagination because my life is so boring that my imagination lets me get off the reality of what's going on.”

“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”

“I saw that publishing all over the world was deeply constrained by self-censorship, economics and political censorship, while the military-industrial complex was growing at a tremendous rate, and the amount of information that it was collecting about all of us vastly exceeded the public imagination.”

“I loved the world of imagination.”