Quotes about Imagination

“I do rely on my instincts a lot and my imagination.”

“All my life I've had the privilege to make my living with my imagination, and the most important thing has been to see my creative life grow. I was educated to do that and have lived accordingly.”

“There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.”

“My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.”

“It is a great thing to have a big brain, a fertile imagination, grand ideals, but the man with these, bereft of a good backbone, is sure to serve no useful end.”

“If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling, filled with imagination and with appetite for the new and with respect for the old - somebody who takes good care of things and of people.”

“Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will.”

“I always believe it's better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do.”

“I feel that directors at times are like the janitors on the set. I am the secretary, I am the organizer, I am the maid, and I ask if they have eaten or rested. The best things are always out of your control. It's those moments that surpass the imagination that are thrilling.”

“What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.”

“I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly imagine.”

“By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.”

“Essentially, I'm untrained, so I just go with my imagination and try to put myself as solidly as I can into the shoes of whatever person I'm going to be playing.”

“In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.”

“Politics is the enemy of the imagination.”

“I do as much comedy as I possibly can, but I'm basically limited by the imagination of the secretaries who make the decisions.”

“You want to do something that shows some type individuality and talent and imagination - at the same time, you want to be truthful to the predecessors, because obviously the audience liked something about them and you have to replicate that experience to a certain extent.”

“I have been afraid all my life that I am going to die. All my life it has been stuffed in my imagination.”

“The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.”

“The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.”

“When your parents regulate everything you hear and everything you intake, it forces you to get creative in other ways. It sparked the writing bug and the very overactive imagination. Because I've had a lot of time by myself and a lot of time isolated from regular culture, I created my own.”