When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.
I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.
Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
Memory is the cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and, the council chamber of thought.
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. -Lauren Bacall.
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.
Faith is spiritualized imagination.
The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the mother of all art and the source of all its beauty.
Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
I came to believe it not true that "the coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man only one." I think it is the other way around: It is the brave who die a thousand deaths. For it is imagination, and not just conscience, which doth make cowards of us all. Those who do not know fear are not truly brave.
A financier is a pawn-broker with imagination.
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine.
To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius--the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.
Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.
Qualities absolutely necessary for a historian: (1) Imagination. (2) Prejudice. (3) The power of writing your own biography at the same time.
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
Where there is no imagination there is no horror.
We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
Imagination is the air of mind.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.