Quotes about Imagination

“Everything you can imagine is real.”

“When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference.”

“Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.”

“Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.”

“Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.”

“Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.”

“There was part of me that wanted to see the world and travel to distant places, but I could only do it in my imagination, so I read ferociously and imagined things.”

“I'm an emotional sort of person in general and I have a vivid imagination, so I feel the whole spectrum of emotion strongly when I write.”

“I have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It's just a characteristic.”

“Three centuries after the appearance of Franklin's 'Courant', it no longer requires a dystopic imagination to wonder who will have the dubious distinction of publishing America's last genuine newspaper. Few believe that newspapers in their current printed form will survive.”

“Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself.”

“Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination.”

“I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination.”

“Because of things like 'The X Factor' and 'Autotune', the real art of communicating a song is not treasured any more. But singing other people's songs can be an intensely personal experience. I want the songs to be vessels that people fill with their own imagination, the same way that I fill it with my thoughts and feelings.”

“Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.”

“For memory, we use our imagination. We take a few strands of real time and carry them with us, then like an oyster we create a pearl around them.”

“There's basically an element of fiction in everything you remember. Imagination and memory are almost the same brain processes. When I write fiction, I know that I'm using a bunch of lies that I've made up to create some form of truth. When I write a memoir, I'm using true elements to create something that will always be somehow fictionalized.”

“For most of human history, there was a ruling class and then there was everybody else. If you were part of everybody else, it wasn't your job to imagine a different future, different ways of doing things. So, imagination is a fairly modern phenomenon.”

“With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour.”

“I live in my imagination, so sometimes movies help me get lost. I feel like I'm in it.”

“Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.”