Imagination Quotes

I have a very vivid imagination.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.

People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.

Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.

I am not by any stretch of the imagination a tidy person, and the piles of unread books on the coffee table and by my bed have a plaintive, pleading quality to me - 'Read me, please!'

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

People may think I'm trying something new by telling stories, but they're just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But really, I just continue using my imagination and creating. That's what I do.

We know their names: Hippolyta, Antiope, Thessalia. But they were long thought to be just travelers' tales or products of the Greek storytelling imagination. A lot of scholars still argue that. But archaeology has now proven without a doubt that there really were women fitting the description that the Greeks gave us of Amazons and warrior women.

At least since the Industrial Revolution, the world of design has been dominated by the rigors of manufacturing and mass production. Assembly lines have dictated a world made of parts, framing the imagination of designers and architects who have been trained to think about their objects as assemblies of discrete parts with distinct functions.

I believe that imagination inspires nations. It's something that I live by.

I had this wild imagination. I was never me. All my childhood photos, I'm in fancy dress, playing a Russian refuge or Marvelous Mad Madam Mim.

Ultimately, you have to meet a realistic setting on screen with some imagination as a viewer, as that is what creates a story.

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.

Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

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

I never in my wildest imagination dreamed that I would somehow become a sports commentator.

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.