Imagination Quotes

• Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process; yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole.

  

  Arthur Keith
  • People
  • War
  • German

• Had there been no Renaissance and no Italian influence to bring in the stories of other lands English history would, it may be, have become as important to the English imagination as the Greek Myths to the Greek imagination; and many plays by many poets would have woven it into a single story whose contours, vast as those of Greek myth, would have made living men and women seem like swallows building their nests under the architrave of some Temple of the Giants.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Men
  • Important
  • Italian

• I've always loved comic books. As a kid, I used to read cowboy stories and historical comics about other worlds, unknown places that would take me out of myself and which helped to develop my imagination.

  

  James Herbert
  • Imagination
  • Unknown
  • Cowboy

• I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening.

  

  Jerzy Kosinski
  • History
  • Past
  • Imagination

• Utopias are presented for our inspection as a critique of the human state. If they are to be treated as anything but trivial exercises of the imagination. I suggest there is a simple test we can apply. We must forget the whole paraphernalia of social description, demonstration, expostulation, approbation, condemnation. We have to say to ourselves, How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?

  

  William Golding
  • Long
  • Simple
  • Exercise

• Imagination makes you see all sorts of things.

  

  Georgia O'Keeffe
  • Imagination
  • Things
  • See

• 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.

  

  Bob Ross
  • Soul
  • Painting
  • Express

• I always find with dramas that the more that's left to the imagination of the audience, the better.

  

  Jodie Comer
  • Imagination

• The most important innovators often don't need any technologies - just imagination and acute sensitivity to people's needs.

  

  Geoff Mulgan
  • People
  • Important
  • Imagination

• I think when you're writing films that just come fresh out of your own imagination - I think probably anyone who's done that, there are certain themes or styles.

  

  Lisa Cholodenko
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Imagination

• People's imagination is the most effective tool in creating terror or dread.

  

  Matt Reeves
  • People
  • Imagination

• If you are lucky as an actor, you are doing a character that really matches where you are in life, or you're doing a character that is not where you are. If it's somewhere in between, you have to use a lot of imagination and a lot of thought.

  

  Scott Cohen
  • Character
  • Actors
  • Lucky

• It's a failure of imagination if you can only write what you know - we have to be able to imagine different worlds.

  

  Dee Rees
  • Different
  • Imagination
  • Failure

• My manic depression was ravaging my life, but because nobody could see it, many people thought it was a figment of my imagination.

  

  Andy Behrman
  • People
  • Life
  • Depression

• For me, as I've said many times, the story is not research. The story is how the characters relate with each other and with the environment... I try to apply my imagination to what could have happened and how a little child could have viewed and processed the event.

  

  Uwem Akpan
  • Imagination
  • Environment

• 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

• A reader's own imagination is a far more powerful form of CGI than anything any movie can provide because it's unique. In your own imagination, you can enter all sorts of worlds, and they are unique to you because no other reader will interpret a book the same way.

  

  Mark Billingham
  • Book
  • Movie
  • Powerful

• The important outcomes of schooling include not only the acquisition of new conceptual tools, refined sensibilities, a developed imagination, and new routines and techniques, but also new attitudes and dispositions. The disposition to continue to learn throughout life is perhaps one of the most important contributions that schools can make to an individual's development.

  

  Elliot W. Eisner
  • Development
  • Outcomes
  • Techniques

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

  

  Lionel Trilling
  • Political
  • Deep
  • Connection

• Organisations with decision-making speed and imagination will thrive as nobody can claim to have a monopoly over creativity.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Decision
  • Imagination
  • Creativity

• Is a brazen and innocent confrontation with paternal authority an unbearably terrifying prospect to some? Are the consequences of a fathers anger and displeasure so catastrophic in the primal imagination that every semblance of it in the world both literally and metaphorically must be denounced in the strongest possible terms? It would seem so.

  

  Michael Leunig
  • World
  • Father
  • Innocent

• A little imagination goes a long way in Fes.

  

  Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi
  • Long
  • Imagination

• Always remember: The thieves of Peace are thieves in an empty house because only imagination suffers. You are Peace, that which remains Untouched.

  

  H. W. L. Poonja
  • Remember
  • House
  • Peace

• When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment.

  

  Terry Brooks
  • Imagination
  • Entertainment

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