Imagination Quotes

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

Thomas A. Edison

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

Leonardo da Vinci

It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.

Edouard Manet

Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.

Mason Cooley

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

Albert Einstein

You see things as they are and ask, 'Why?' I dream things as they never were and ask, 'Why not?'the serpent saying to Eve

George Bernard Shaw, Back to Met

Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gardens, of the garments white and wide - obsessions where the senses go berserk, where nerves are exasperated, and which made me, at the onset of each night, believe sleep impossible.

Andre Gide, Feuilles de route

I mean, the most important thing to me is imagination.

Rob Walton

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

Joseph Addison

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.

Christopher Isherwood

I've been working on the soprano saxophone for 40 years, and the possibilities are astounding. It's up to you, the only limit is the imagination.

Steve Lacy

I am simply impressed by the unexpected insights which shower down on me when my job is to imagine, as contrasted with the woodenly familiar ideas which clutter my desk when my job is to tell the truth.

Kurt Vonnegut

Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.

Robert Collier

Jehovah God is truly rich far beyond the imagination of humankind.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

We can live with lots of things, but we can't live without imagination, we can't live without hope.

Ariel Dorfman

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.

Helen Rowland

The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South.

James Weldon Johnson

I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination.

Carlos Fuentes

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.

Ursula K. Le Guin

His imagination conceived and bore - worlds but nothing in these worlds became alive until he discovered its true and living name. The name was the breath of life and, sooner or later, he invariably found it.

Algernon H. Blackwood