Quotes on My Imagination

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination

I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, and that's why I always read books, and I could go to Mars or Middle Earth or the Hyborian age.

Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

I always won in my imagination. I always hit the game-winning shot, or I hit the free throw. Or if I missed, there was a lane violation, and I was given another one.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

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.

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

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

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

The scariest, most terrifying thing that I fear? Yes. My Imagination. I thought you were going to say "Fear, itself." Then you have a small imagination.

Through an experience that simultaneously involved my sensibility and intelligence, I realized early on that the imaginative life, however morbid it might seem, is the one that suits temperaments like mine. The fictions of my imagination (as it later developed) may weary me, but they don't hurt or humiliate. Impossible lovers can't cheat on us, or smile at us falsely, or be calculating in their caresses. They never forsake us, and they don't die or disappear. --The book of Disquiet

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.