Imagination Quotes

Dreams are the children of idled minds.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Reading can take you places you have never been before.

Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.

It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.

The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

It is out of reality that the most peculiar tale of all is born ... Some call me the Elder Granny, others - the Dryad, but my real name is Memory. It is I who sits on a tree that keeps on growing, and growing, it is I who reminisces and tells stories.

The ability to "fantasize" is the ability to survive. It's wonderful to speak about this subject because there have been so many wrong-headed people dealing with it.... The so-called realists are trying to drive us insane, and I refuse to be driven insane.... We survive by fantasizing. Take that away from us and the whole damned human race goes down the drain.

Psychologists have hitherto failed to realize that imagination is a necessary ingredient of perception itself.

When I was five, I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress. I loved to play. I didn't like the world around me because it was kind of grim, but I loved to play house. It was like you could make your own boundaries.

To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.

I put tape on the mirrors in my house so I don't accidentally walk through into another dimension.

I have absolutley no limits on what I intent to create.

I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

One siupreme fact which I have discovered is that it is not willpower, but fantasy and imagination that ceates. Imagination is the creative force. Imagination creates reality.

I very seldom, very seldom, even know what my characters look like.

Imagination is the most powerful force in the universe.

So full of shapes is fancy That it alone is high fantastical.

You create your own universe as you go along. The stronger your imagination, the more variegated your universe. When you leave off dreaming, the universe ceases to exist.

You won't get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it.

Take a few minutes of every day to fantasize about how you would wander, travel, or explore if you could.

A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.

There is no better way to exercise the imagination than the study of the law.

Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.

Children are not deceived by fairy-tales; they are often and gravely deceived by school-stories. Adults are not deceived by science-fiction ; they can be deceived by the stories in the women's magazines.

Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surprise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more securely.

The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.

At last she shut the book sharply, lay back, and drew a deep breath, expressive of the wonder which always marks the transition from the imaginary world to the real world.

I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.

Imagination does not enable us to invent as many different contradictions as there are by nature in every heart.

Those who are clever in imagination are far more pleased with themselves than prudent men could reasonably be.

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

Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.

We soon get through with Nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy. The merest child which has rambled into a copsewood dreams of a wildness so wild and strange and inexhaustible as Nature can never show him.

I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.

Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood.

No man can avail himself of the forces of his creative imagination, while dissipating them.

The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination, is, that, in such a vast variety of people and conditions, one can believe there is room for persons of romantic character to exist, and that the poet, the mystic, and the hero may hope to confront their counterparts.

All the resources we need are in the mind.

Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies.

Think! Think and wonder. Wonder and think. How much water can 55 elephants drink?

Men cannot conceive of a state of things so fair that it cannot be realized.

Most members of Congress are politicians. They're bores. They're damn boring. They have no imagination, and they don't know how to imagine the future.

Nearly all creators of Utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache... Whoever tries to imagine perfection simply reveals his own emptiness.

And so I am become a knight of the Kingdom of Dreams and Shadows

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

If I could put my hand on the north star, would it be as beautiful? The sea is lovely, but when we bathe in it the beauty forsakesall the near water. For the imagination and senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

When I was seven or eight years old, I began to read the science-fiction magazines that were brought by guests into my grandparents' boarding house in Waukegan, Illinois. Those were the years when Hugo Gernsback was publishing 'Amazing Stories,' with vivid, appallingly imaginative cover paintings that fed my hungry imagination.

you had nothing to say about it and yet made the nothing up into words.

Kids like us don't often have the chance of meeting a great warrior like you. Would you have a little fencing match with me? It would be frightfully decent.

Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.

The other day when I was walking through the woods, I saw a rabbit standing in front of a candle making shadows of people on a tree.

Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.

Things are no longer what they seem to be. My telephones are haunted, and animals whisper at me from unseen places.

It may have happened, it may not have happened but it could have happened.

Creative fantasy, because it is mainly trying to do something else ... may open your hoard and let all the locked things fly away like cage-birds.

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

There was something refreshingly and wildly musical to my ears in the very name of the white man's canoe, reminding me of Charlevoix and Canadian Voyageurs. The batteau is a sort of mongrel between the canoe and the boat, a fur-trader's boat.

The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.