Imagination Quotes

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.

We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.

It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.

The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

Boredom is your imagination calling to you.

Like all novelists, I'm interested in the filters between reality and the imagination.

I just have a relationship with my imagination. It's like my friend, almost.

My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.

I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can.

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.