Quotes about Imagination

“I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me.”

“Faith is spiritualized imagination.”

“People can die of mere imagination.”

“Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.”

“The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.”

“The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.”

“Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.”

“To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.”

“When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.”

“In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present, but only for the future, where streams of revenue play in his imagination.”

“Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.”

“Where there is no imagination there is no horror.”

“War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.”

“The fictive structure, my work, my imagination, my books are about the details, the huge construction about culture, Islamic culture or modern Turkey. They're all intertwined.”

“A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their fiction. A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.”

“I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it.”

“The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.”