Quotes on Imagination

Formerly I believed books were made like this: a poet came, lightly opened his lips, and the inspired fool burst into song – if you please! But it seems, before they can launch a song, poets must tramp for days with callused feet, and the sluggish fish of the imagination flounders softly in the slush of the heart. And while, with twittering rhymes, they boil a broth of loves and nightingales, the tongueless street merely writhes for lack of something to shout or say

the mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future

What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?

I can't think of anything more rewarding than being able to express yourself to others through painting. Exercising the imagination, experimenting with talents, being creative; these things, to me, are truly the windows to your soul.

Idealism is the death of the body and the imagination. All but freedom, utter freedom, is death

For a while these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy's wing.

Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we can see life as a whole, by which and by which alone we can understand others in their real and their ideal relation. Only what is fine, and finely conceived can feed love. But anything will feed hate.

The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination

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

Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.

Thought is the greatest of pleasures —pleasure itself is only imagination—have you ever enjoyed anything more than your dreams?

I am very frustrated by fear of imagination, I don’t think that’s healthy.

You can think about red. You can think about pink. You can think up a horse. Oh, the THINKS you can think!

There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.

Because the child must have a valuable thing which is called imagination. The child must have a secret world in which live things that never were. It is necessary that she believe. She must start out believing in things not of this world. Then when the world becomes too ugly for living in, the child can reach back and live in her imagination.

I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.

I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you. For me, imagination and desire are very close.

There is at the back of every artist’s mind something like a pattern and a type of architecture. The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery. It is a thing like the landscape of his dreams; the sort of world he would like to make or in which he would like to wander, the strange flora and fauna, his own secret planet, the sort of thing he likes to think about. This general atmosphere, and pattern or a structure of growth, governs all his creations, however varied.

Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough