Quotes about Imagination

“'A Princess of Mars' may not have exerted the same colossal pull that Tarzan had on the global imagination, but its influence on generations of readers cannot be underestimated.”

“Poetry can do a lot of things to people. I mean it can improve your imagination. It can take you to new places. It can give you this incredible form of verbal pleasure.”

“Because of my faith and my imagination, I was able to enjoy my childhood, even though it was tough.”

“I had a pretty sexual imagination for a kid.”

“Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.”

“To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination, and the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.”

“I have a vivid, apocalyptic imagination.”

“A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.”

“Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.”

“I love our shared island, our shared Ireland and its core decency. I love it for its imagination and its celebration of the endless possibilities for our people.”

“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.”

“Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin.”

“We humans lack imagination, to the point of not even knowing what tomorrow's important things will look like.”

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

“Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.”

“I think artists can influence only through making music that challenges people, excites them and flips them out. Music that repeats what you know in ever-decreasing derivation, that's unchallenging and unstimulating, deadens our minds, our imagination and our ability to see beyond the hell we find ourselves in.”

“Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.”

“You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know.”

“We know their names: Hippolyta, Antiope, Thessalia. But they were long thought to be just travelers' tales or products of the Greek storytelling imagination. A lot of scholars still argue that. But archaeology has now proven without a doubt that there really were women fitting the description that the Greeks gave us of Amazons and warrior women.”

“Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.”

“I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.”