Quotes about Imagination

"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever."

"My father used to say to me, 'The only limit to your success is your own imagination.' I actually believed that - like, I'm still coming to terms with the fact that I might not be an Olympic figure skater."

"The Grateful Dead, they're my best friends. Their message of hope, peace, love, teamwork, creativity, imagination, celebration, the dance, the vision, the purpose, the passion all of the things I believe in makes me the luckiest Deadhead in the world."

"If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling, filled with imagination and with appetite for the new and with respect for the old - somebody who takes good care of things and of people."

"As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope."

"Imagination is very important to having vision and trying to find things that are different, alternate ways."

"You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it."

"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free."

"Man lives by imagination."

"The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless. -Jean"

"Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination."

"The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope."

"To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science."

"Reality has always been too small for the human imagination. We're always trying to transcend."

"Hunger, inadequate medical care, poor housing, and inferior schools are enemies of the sense of wonder. It is easier and less expensive in the long run to prevent a loss of imagination by providing adequate nutrition, housing, medical care, and schooling than it is to try to restore that loss."

"The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible."

"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."

"Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it."

"The man who has no imagination has no wings."

"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will."

"If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it."

"Imagination creates reality."

"Girls are capable of doing everything men are capable of doing. Sometimes they have more imagination than men."

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

"You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need."

"Like all novelists, I'm interested in the filters between reality and the imagination."

"All art, from the paintings on the walls of cave dwellers to art created today, is autobiographical because it comes from the secret place in the soul where imagination resides."

"America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres."

"Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza."

"When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination."

"I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly imagine."

"A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning."

"The imagination is an innate gift, but it needs refinement and cultivation; this is what the humanities provide."