Quotes about Imagination

“Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.”

“I love sci-fi because it leads in the imagination, and I always say it has the most intelligent fans in the world.”

“The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.”

“I suppose I have an active imagination, and writing allows me to live it out.”

“It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people's imagination, and all of them were very difficult women.”

“The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.”

“The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.”

“I think of myself as a little kid, and I had a wild imagination, but it was something that was encouraged and supported, which helped steer me into the arts.”

“The Constitution did not even go into effect when Washington was inaugurated first President. The wisest men knew that it was only a figment of the imagination then.”

“I've been working on the soprano saxophone for 40 years, and the possibilities are astounding. It's up to you, the only limit is the imagination.”

“The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.”

“People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.”

“Your skills may not be anything out of the ordinary, but you can do miraculous things with what you've got. Maybe it's your parenting skills, or your compassion. It may be your curiosity, your imagination or unique style of fashion. Even if it seems to be no big deal, the lesson here is we all have unique abilities and talents.”

“It is a failure of imagination and methodology to claim that it is necessary to experiment on millions of people without their consent in order to produce good data science.”

“You'd have to have one hell of an imagination to completely make up a story, but historians are very anal about what they think should be portrayed on screen. Thankfully they don't make movies; we do.”

“Lyrically I like to use themes that make the listener use his or her imagination, and to give a little of the lessons I've learned in my own life.”

“I feel very giddy with the idea of making my imagination take form and being able to put on a show where people leave feeling like they've experienced something.”

“From a very young age, stories fuelled my imagination in the most wonderful way.”

“A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.”

“True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.”

“I think because I try to keep things as real as I can, or I try to start from a place of reality, I almost don't have the imagination to write a book that's not set where I am.”