Quotes about Imagination

“Imagination creates some big monsters.”

“It is literature which for me opened the mysterious and decisive doors of imagination and understanding. To see the way others see. To think the way others think. And above all, to feel.”

“There are no shortcuts in life - only those we imagine.”

“Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.”

“Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.”

“It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.”

“Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.”

“Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.”

“Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print, and begin to build.”

“What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination.”

“I would love to meet J.K. Rowling and tell her how much I admire her writing and am amazed by her imagination. I read every 'Harry Potter' book as it came out and looked forward to each new one. I am rereading them now with my kids and enjoying them every bit as much. She made me look at jelly beans in a whole new way.”

“Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.”

“The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.”

“I will never be one of the happy stupid that were born somewhere. This way of life is excellent for the imagination. It develops your paranoia. You feel paranoid when you don't understand a country, and being paranoiac is excellent for fiction.”

“Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.”

“Death is the tyrant of the imagination.”

“My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So that's how I identify.”

“If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude... I hope to make you use your imagination.”

“When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement for civil rights, and you had plenty of elements to fire the imagination of a novice journalist.”

“I hope that I'm sexy in a different kind of way than I think that a lot of girls are right now. I think a lot of girls in the public eye, especially musical artists, are just kind of objectified a little bit and wearing super-skimpy outfits and leaving nothing to the imagination.”

“Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.”