Imagination Quotes

• Despite the hundreds of attempts, police terror and the concentration camps have proved to be more or less impossible subjects for the artist; since what happened in them was beyond the imagination, it was therefore also beyond art and all those human values on which art is traditionally based.

  

  Al Alvarez
  • Art
  • Imagination
  • Police

• The doctrine of the cynics is the Ideal reversed, the parody of physical and moral beauty, the crime of mind, the degradation of imagination. I could not take pleasure in it. There was too much enthusiasm within me to permit me to crawl through those sinks of the brain. My nature had wings. The dangers to which I was exposed were above, not below.

  

  Alphonse de Lamartine
  • Mind
  • Nature
  • Brain

• That's the imagination that happens in the theater. That imagination is translated in film by the film magicians and all the technology.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Technology
  • Imagination
  • Film

• This alone is to be feared - the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of the spirit. The death of the body is to that, I think, a little thing.

  

  Winifred Holtby
  • Death
  • Imagination
  • Feared

• I'll not punish you for having an imagination.

  

  Betty Smith
  • Imagination

• Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Art
  • Giving
  • Criticism

• Not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an imagination that has never broken kinship with nature. Art must accept such gifts, and revaluate the giver.

  

  Alain LeRoy Locke
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Imagination

• I can't write a lie; the world of imagination is no good. I objectively capture my own experiences and those of my friends. I want to put true feelings into words. If I make a song when I'm sad, it's a dark one, but I think that's good. No matter when I want to be true to myself.

  

  Ayumi Hamasaki
  • World
  • Good
  • Friends

• If my house has collapsed at one blow, that is because it was a house of cards. The faith which 'took these things into account' was not faith but imagination.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • House
  • Faith
  • Blow

• Using my imagination and creativity is exciting to me.

  

  Jan de Bont
  • Imagination
  • Creativity

• Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.

  

  Luis Bunuel
  • People
  • Trying
  • Freedom

• Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them.

  

  Laurette Taylor
  • Important
  • Imagination
  • Personality

• Ginny came in to visit while you were unconscious", he said, after a long pause, and Harry's imagination zoomed into overdrive, rapidly constructing a scene in which Ginny, weeking over his lifeless form, confessed her feelings of deep attraction to him while Ron gave them his blessing.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Long
  • Imagination
  • Deep

• I'm not driven. I love writing. My imagination is always working. I write when I have time, and life allows me the time.

  

  Max Apple
  • Life
  • Time
  • Writing

• Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Imagination

• The spirit's there and that's not just my imagination. I think if you look at surveys and attitudes among young people, you see it.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Imagination

• What meal is not expensive? That for which no animal is put to death. … one participating of feeling, of seeing, of hearing, of imagination, and of intellection; which each animal hath received from Nature for the acquiring of what is agreeable to it, and the avoiding what is disagreeable.

  

  Plutarch
  • Nature
  • Death
  • Feeling

• There is something strangely winning to most women in that offer of the firm arm; the help is not wanted physically at that moment, but the sense of help, the presence of strength that is outside them and yet theirs, meets a continual want of the imagination.

  

  George Eliot
  • Women
  • Help
  • Winning

• Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.

  

  William Irwin Thompson
  • Feels
  • Catastrophe
  • Domain

• My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived; and as I can do neither good nor evil, I must be borne away by others and meet the common fate.

  

  John Adams
  • Good
  • Country
  • Evil

• There's no such thing as im-POSSIBLE, Hiccup, only im-PROBABLE. The only thing that limits us are the limits to our imagination

  

  Cressida Cowell
  • Impossible
  • Limits
  • Improbable

• Without ... the creative imagination rushing in where bureaucratic angels fear to tread - without this, life is a mockery and a disgrace.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Imagination

• I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • World
  • Believe
  • Power

• For me, imagination would always provide a means of escape.

  

  Christopher Fowler
  • Imagination

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