Quotes
Quotes about Imagination
I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.
Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will.
Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.
It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter, because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the ordinary.
When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and that of the repentance that is likely to follow it.
The inertia of the human mind and its resistance to innovation are most clearly demonstrated not, as one might expect, by the ignorant mass- which is easily swayed once its imagination is caught- but by professionals with a vested interest in tradition and in the monopoly of learning. Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole, laboriously constructed intellectual edifice might collapse. The academic backwoodsmen have been the curse of genius from Aristarchus to Darwin and Freud; they stretch, a solid and hostile phalanx of pedantic mediocrities, across the centuries.
It is generally recognized that creativity requires leisure, an absence of rush, time for the mind and imagination to float and wander and roam, time for the individual to descend into the depths of his or her psyche, to be available to barely audible signals rustling for attention. Long periods of time may pass in which nothing seems to be happening. But we know that kind of space must be created if the mind is to leap out of its accustomed ruts, to part from the mechanical, the known, the familiar, the standard, and generate a leap into the new.
Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.
The main fuel to speed the world's progress is our stock of knowledge, and the brake is our lack of imagination.
It is a juvenile notion that a society needs a lofty purpose and a shining vision to achieve much. Both in the marketplace and on the battlefield men who set their hearts on toys have often displayed unequal initiative and drive. And one must be ignorant of the creative process to look for a close correspondence between motive and achievement in the world of thought and imagination.
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.
Advertising enriches life by quickening the imagination, arousing interest and enlarging the taste.
There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
Only in your imagination can you revise.
One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is a quick-silver faculty, and likely to be a cause of worry to any collective settlement.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
When I have been indulging this thought I have, in imagination, seen the Britons of some future century, walking by the banks of the Thames, then overgrown with weeds and almost impassable with rubbish. The father points to his son where stood St. Paul's, the Monument, the Bank, the Mansion House, and other places of the first distinction.
Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?
An idea is salvation by imagination.
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
