Imagination Quotes

For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.

People are only limited by their imagination. If you don't dream then you won't do it. Human beings are capable of doing amazing things.

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.

You are indebted to you imagination for three-fourths of your importance.

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

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

It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care.

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.

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

Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective.

I'm used to music as a tool, taking the various elements and then making something completely new out of them. And writing film music is the perfect opportunity to do that, because you can look at the film and then just let your imagination soar.

Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made.

Edgy is fine - I'm not a prude by any stretch of the imagination - but what's wrong with a good ol' belly laugh? I miss that.

If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude... I hope to make you use your imagination.

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construction of the monster and usually that's in the world of the supernatural or the world of the fantastic, so that's why those kinds of stories about demons and the supernatural appeal to me or maybe I'm really interested in that subject.