Imagination Quotes

• I'm not a massive artist by any stretch of the imagination. Yes, I've been in papers and magazines, but you never have any idea if anyone actually reads it or pays any attention.

  

  Ben Eine
  • Attention
  • Artist
  • Idea

• I don't think there is such a thing as pure imagination. I think it's a combination of memory and invention.

  

  Ethan Canin
  • Memory
  • Combination
  • Don't Think

• The goal of 'Data Detectives' is to spark the imagination of students around the globe by making them think about new technologies that will impact humanity in ways similar to language and art.

  

  Rick Smolan
  • Humanity
  • Language
  • Students

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

  

  Northrop Frye
  • World
  • Reality
  • Literature

• You know if there is a rabid dog running around your neighborhood, you're probably not going to assume something good about that dog, and you're probably gonna put your children out of the way. Doesn't mean that you hate all dogs by any stretch of the imagination.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Children
  • Dog
  • Neighborhood

• What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what's real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Imagine
  • Library
  • Universal

• Every bush can burn if you fire it with your imagination.

  

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
  • Imagination

• I just gave them a little scare. A touch of psychological terror. As Joseph Conrad once wrote, true terror is the kind that men feel towards their imagination. (from Super-frog Saves Tokyo)

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Terror
  • Scare
  • Wrote

• I'm not writing non-fiction. I don't feel anything about me as a kid was unique. Except that I had more interest in being alone and using my imagination.

  

  John Irving
  • Writing
  • Alone
  • Unique

• I think my imagination dictates the technologies I use. But at the same time, my imagination can be technologic. Sometimes I see a tool and I know immediately how to use it, but most of the time I use the tool for an idea I already have.

  

  Michel Gondry
  • Technology
  • Imagination
  • Sometimes

• By having the big lines of the composition going out of the canvas, your imagination can wander beyond the edge. It will make it seem part of a large composition.

  

  Charles Webster Hawthorne
  • Lines
  • Canvas
  • Composition

• I'm an actor. Whether I'm on stage, in front of a camera or a microphone, what I do is the same - although with videogames it requires a lot of imagination.

  

  Nolan North
  • Imagination
  • Actor
  • Video Games

• Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world.

  

  Gertrude Atherton
  • Writing
  • Imagination
  • Real Life

• Painting is the most beautiful of all arts. In it, all sensations are condensed, at its aspect everyone may create romance at the will of his imagination, and at a glance have his soul invaded by the most profound memories, no efforts of memory, everything summed up in one moment. Complete art which sums up all the others and completes them.

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Art
  • Soul
  • Beautiful

• I probably became an actor because of my vivid imagination, and doing voice-over really sort of takes me back to that.

  

  Eric Stonestreet
  • Imagination
  • Voice
  • Actor

• He didn't want her the way he generally wanted women, to feel them under him, to turn them over, turn them again, open them up, break them, step on them, and crush them. He didn't want her in order to have sex and then forget her. He wanted the subtlety of her mind with all its ideas. He wanted her imagination. And he wanted her without ruining her, to make her last.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Women
  • Ideas
  • Sex

• The object of religion is the imagination, that deep and inexhaustible font of our understanding and symbolizing our deepest possibilities.

  

  Eugene Kennedy
  • Imagination
  • Religion
  • Possibilities

• Love at first sight is only realizing an imagination that has always haunted us; or meeting with a face, a figure, or cast of expression in perfection that we have seen and admired in a less degree or in less favorable circumstances a hundred times before.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Imagination
  • Realizing
  • Perfection

• Books have a vital place in our culture. They are the source of ideas, of stories that engage and stretch the imagination and most importantly, inspire.

  

  Sara Sheridan
  • Book
  • Culture
  • Inspire

• I don't understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Knows
  • Process
  • Mercy

• My subject is the educated imagination, and education is something that affects the whole person, not bits and pieces of him .

  

  Northrop Frye
  • Persons
  • Pieces
  • Educated

• You are a creator. You create with your every thought...anything you can imagine is yours to be, do or have.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Imagination
  • Imagine
  • Creator

• Grandchildren have taught me how important the future is. I try to look through their eyes and envision what's in their imagination. What's the world going to look like when they're my age? That really does take a huge imagination.

  

  Richard Lugar
  • Trying
  • Imagination
  • Grandchildren

• When I get an idea I start at once building it up in my imagination. I change the construction, make improvements and operate the device in my mind. It is absolutely immaterial to me whether I run my turbine in my thought or test it in my shop. I even note if it is out of balance.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Change
  • Balance
  • Construction

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