Quotes about Imagination

“I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.”

“To put yourself in another's place requires real imagination, but by doing so each Girl Scout will be able to love among others happily.”

“Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.”

“As an actor, the only thing you have is your instinct and your imagination.”

“Now, I'm a failed political consultant. But sometimes fiction has a way of capturing people's imagination in a way that non-fiction doesn't. Conservatives typically haven't written much fiction - specifically political thrillers - over the years to educate, inspire and mobilize people on issues of great import, but we ought to.”

“The appeal of perfume is that it is at once ephemeral and empowering. It creates a shimmering invisible armor that lingers in a room long after its wearer has gone and infuses our imagination with a subtle power, hinting at a hidden identity.”

“I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist.”

“Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.”

“He brought imagination to the story of the Creation.”

“Imagination is a beast that has to be put in a cage.”

“Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.”

“I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.”

“Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl in the American imagination; if the United States is one of the most venal nations on Earth, it is also one of the most earnestly idealistic.”

“I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.”

“All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.”

“Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.”

“Heaven knows, I've exposed myself in my novels through the use of fantasy and imagination... now my new book is about what really happened to me... not my heroines.”

“My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.”

“I don't want to discredit people's individuality, but I think people are pretty much the same. People are very similar. If you have a good enough imagination then you can feel things that you personally have never done before. That's acting.”

“Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.”

“London has always provided the landscape for my imagination. It becomes a character - a living being - within each of my books.”