Explore Quotes on Imagination

Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.

Why be narrow-minded, why cut ourselves off from any of these rich heritages when… we have the freedom to make the most of the best in all techniques? There are no prohibitions against it. All it takes is a little wisdom, imagination and courageous experimentation.

After all, we did not invent symbolism; it is a universal age-old activity of the human imagination.

To write a song you must have an imagination, to have an imagination you must be free.

Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding critics. As only those who dare to make mistakes succeed greatly, only those who shake free the wings of their imagination brush, once in a way, the secrets of the great pale world. If such writers go wrong, it is not for the mere brains to tell them so

Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible.

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will.

But who can distinguish between falling in love and imagining falling in love? Even genuinely falling in love is an act of the imagination.

I want to be remembered most as a writer - one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well.

The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

The greatest gift you can give a child is an imagination.

The secret of survival is a defective imagination.

If a man’s imagination were not so weak, so easily tired, if his capacity for wonder not so limited, he would abandon forever such fantasies of the supernal. He would learn to perceive in water, leaves and silence more than sufficient of the absolute and marvelous, more than enough to console him for the loss of the ancient dream.

No matter how much experience we may gather in life, we can never in life get the dimension of experience that the imagination gives us. Only the arts and sciences can do that, and of these, only literature gives us the whole sweep and range of human imagination as it sees itself

The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.

There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.

Literature as a whole is not an aggregate of exhibits with red and blue ribbons attached to them, like a cat-show, but the range of articulate human imagination as it extends from the height of imaginative heaven to the depth of imaginative hell.

Justice is to be found only in the imagination.

If you don't daydream and kind of plan things out in your imagination, you never get there. So you have to start someplace.