Imagination Quotes

I guess I'm a very keen observer, and I'd like to think I have a good imagination.

I once told a date, 'I love what you're wearing!' She replied, 'Aw, thanks. I've gotten so many compliments on it. Yours means the most though!' She didn't need to tell me guys were hitting on her - my imagination went there anyway.

There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you can't know it all, and that's where imagination can work.

So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.

We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials for imagination are inexhaustible here.

Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe.

A fully engaged imagination is essential to the spiritual practice of the Tibetan Buddhist Vajrayana School, whose artistic tradition is in service of consciousness transformation.

Art is one of the prime ways we have of opening ourselves and going beyond ourselves. That's what art is: it's the product of the human being in the world and imagination, all coming together.

Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination... a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.

We humans lack imagination, to the point of not even knowing what tomorrow's important things will look like.

Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.

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

I came from a childhood where I spent a lot of time alone and a lot of time just living with my imagination, and a certain amount of the adult world was kind of alienating.

The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.

A place makes a deep impression on you when you're young. It lives with you. It's like your childhood. It fertilises the imagination.

The longer I look at something, the more my imagination churns and I can find somewhere to put it.

Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.

Imagination creates some big monsters.

I do think imagination is enormously valuable, and that children should be encouraged in their imagination. That's very true.

He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.