Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination do not become the slave of your model. 23 more views from Vincent Van Gogh
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. 105 sayings from Albert Einstein
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty. 105 quotes from Albert Einstein
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. 16 quotes from Michelangelo
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions. 105 other thoughts from Albert Einstein
Imagination is more important than knowledge. 105 more quotes from Albert Einstein
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. 105 sayings from Albert Einstein
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. 105 more wisdom & wit from Albert Einstein
There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination. 5 quotes from William Godwin
Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try! 8 quotes from Dr. Seuss
Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous. 23 sayings from Vincent Van Gogh
That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow. 3 quotes from George Berkeley
A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist. 9 more quotes from Vladimir Nabokov
Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely. 41 quotes from Marcus Aurelius
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination. 13 views from Immanuel Kant
He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart. 18 quotes from Washington Irving
If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies. 8 thoughts from Karl Kraus
Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men. 9 other sayings from George Henry Lewes
Imagination is the air of mind. 6 other quotes from Philip James Bailey
Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory. 18 wisdom & wit from Emile M. Cioran
Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination. 9 other quotes from George Henry Lewes
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact. 81 more wisdom & wit from William Shakespeare
The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory. 70 other wisdom & wit from Thomas Jefferson
The power of imagination makes us infinite. 13 quotes from John Muir
The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury. 11 thoughts from Charlie Chaplin
The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination. 9 quotes from Robert Collier
There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory. 42 other views from Josh Billings
To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all. 20 views from Anatole France
To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another. 17 quotes from John Burroughs
Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination. 9 other sayings from Ludwig Wittgenstein
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake? 27 quotes from Leonardo da Vinci
A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache. 6 thoughts from Catherine the Great
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. 26 wisdom & wit from Harry S. Truman
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. 14 wisdom & wit from Joseph Joubert
Imagination creates reality. 3 quotes from Richard Wagner
Imagination is the eye of the soul. 14 views from Joseph Joubert
Imagination is the true magic carpet. 11 wisdom & wit from Norman Vincent Peale
One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet. 14 wisdom & wit from Joseph Joubert
Science does not know its debt to imagination. 135 more quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability. 33 views from Thomas Huxley
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. 52 wisdom & wit from Gilbert K. Chesterton
True change takes place in the imagination. 7 quotes from Thomas Moore
Where there is no imagination there is no horror. 14 thoughts from Arthur Conan Doyle
The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society. 2 other views from Edmund Wilson
The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination. 2 more thoughts from Edmund Wilson
The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination. 5 thoughts from Dennis Potter
To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination. 3 quotes from Isaac D'Israeli
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. 17 other quotes from Antoine de Saint-Exupery
An idea is salvation by imagination. 26 views from Frank Lloyd Wright
Faith is spiritualized imagination. 58 wisdom & wit from Henry Ward Beecher
Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination. 12 sayings from Marquis de Sade
I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening. 6 more sayings from Jerzy Kosinski
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever. 47 wisdom & wit from George Orwell
Imagination decides everything. 57 more quotes from Blaise Pascal
Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world. 57 more thoughts from Blaise Pascal
It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object beware of this stumbling block. 4 more sayings from Paul Gauguin
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books. 5 quotes from Gaston Bachelard
Men often take their imagination for their heart and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted. 57 views from Blaise Pascal
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind. 28 other quotes from William Butler Yeats
The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope. 58 quotes from Henry Ward Beecher
This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts. 9 quotes from Adam Smith
Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction. 12 quotes from Marquis de Sade
We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality. 7 quotes from Judy Garland
Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind it is a way of engaging reality. 2 more quotes from Irving Howe
Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels. 3 quotes from Luigi Pirandello
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination. 19 other thoughts from Carl Jung
Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination. 35 more thoughts from Ernest Hemingway
Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza. 12 wisdom & wit from Franz Kafka
Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling. 117 wisdom & wit from Henry David Thoreau
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. 115 other quotes from George Bernard Shaw
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart it being much more sensitive. 117 other quotes from Henry David Thoreau
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination. 18 thoughts from Marcel Proust
No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination. 8 quotes from Edward Hopper
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake. 117 other thoughts from Henry David Thoreau
The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. 19 sayings from Carl Jung
This world is but a canvas to our imagination. 117 quotes from Henry David Thoreau
There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination. 6 thoughts from Lionel Trilling
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. 7 quotes from Jorge Luis Borges
I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive. 2 wisdom & wit from Man Ray
Imagination rules the world. 50 views from Napoleon Bonaparte
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future. 11 more quotes from Charles Kettering
Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things. 19 wisdom & wit from Percy Bysshe Shelley
The great instrument of moral good is the imagination. 19 wisdom & wit from Percy Bysshe Shelley
The human race is governed by its imagination. 50 other views from Napoleon Bonaparte
We especially need imagination in science. 8 quotes from Maria Mitchell
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry. 5 quotes from Maria Montessori
I am better able to imagine hell than heaven it is my inheritance, I suppose. 2 thoughts from Elinor Wylie
I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea. 19 thoughts from H. G. Wells
It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods. 60 wisdom & wit from H. L. Mencken
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. 60 other thoughts from H. L. Mencken
My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art. 2 more wisdom & wit from Clara Schumann
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines. 90 thoughts from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt. 4 quotes from Henry George
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. 63 views from Samuel Johnson
Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth. 15 views from Cyril Connolly
Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess. 63 views from Samuel Johnson
But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers? 5 wisdom & wit from James Thomson
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. 9 wisdom & wit from John Dewey
He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts. 3 more quotes from Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality. 4 other sayings from Jonas Salk
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination. 19 quotes from John Keats
I imagine that yes is the only living thing. 13 views from e. e. cummings
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. 29 sayings from Pablo Picasso
If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers. 6 other quotes from Bela Lugosi
In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature. 16 more quotes from Wallace Stevens
Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination. 13 thoughts from e. e. cummings
My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived. 18 other sayings from John Adams
My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk. 19 wisdom & wit from John Keats
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination. 17 views from John Lennon
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never. 24 thoughts from Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates. 100 other views from Oscar Wilde
The imagination is man's power over nature. 16 wisdom & wit from Wallace Stevens
There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality. 4 thoughts from Jonas Salk
To put yourself in another's place requires real imagination, but by doing so each Girl Scout will be able to love among others happily. 2 quotes from Juliette Gordon Low
We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark. 16 other wisdom & wit from Wallace Stevens
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth. 19 wisdom & wit from John Keats
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain. 24 wisdom & wit from Samuel Taylor Coleridge
There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination. 6 more quotes from Leigh Hunt
Death is the tyrant of the imagination. 3 wisdom & wit from Barry Cornwall
Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute. 8 quotes from Franklin P. Adams
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. 20 other views from George S. Patton
If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude... I hope to make you use your imagination. 14 thoughts from Hedy Lamarr
Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love. 4 quotes from Gilbert Parker
Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction. 22 thoughts from Jimi Hendrix
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow. 32 quotes from William Blake
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. 9 quotes from Carl Sagan
It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination. 2 sayings from Martha Gellhorn
Jehovah God is truly rich far beyond the imagination of humankind. 2 wisdom & wit from Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. 78 quotes from Voltaire
Reason is the natural order of truth but imagination is the organ of meaning. 25 views from C. S. Lewis
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. 98 more quotes from Mark Twain
You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination. 19 more wisdom & wit from Charles de Gaulle
Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together. 4 quotes from Jacques Maritain
The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination. 2 wisdom & wit from Sarah Fielding
A lady's imagination is very rapid it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. 21 more thoughts from Jane Austen
Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world. 23 more quotes from Walt Disney
For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free. 11 sayings from Manuel Puig
I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse. 23 views from Walt Disney
Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding. 58 quotes from Thomas Carlyle
Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything. 23 sayings from Henry Miller
Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too. 4 thoughts from Joyce Cary
Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination. 4 other views from Evelyn Underhill
One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination. 3 more wisdom & wit from Sam Levenson
Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica. 8 other quotes from Stephen Leacock
The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity. 46 more sayings from George Santayana
When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination. 4 quotes from Ellen Key
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers. 25 sayings from Orison Swett Marden
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. 19 sayings from Edgar Allan Poe
Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination. 10 sayings from Edward Abbey
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense. 23 sayings from Helen Rowland
I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can. 5 other wisdom & wit from Franz Schubert
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young. 29 thoughts from W. Somerset Maugham
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him for what he is. 67 sayings from Francis Bacon
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. 3 more wisdom & wit from Edouard Manet
My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people. 5 views from Patricia Highsmith
Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities. 25 views from Orison Swett Marden
People can die of mere imagination. 6 views from Geoffrey Chaucer
The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led. 19 quotes from Edgar Allan Poe
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination. 37 other views from Edmund Burke
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. 67 sayings from Francis Bacon
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night. 19 other quotes from Edgar Allan Poe
To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination. 12 wisdom & wit from Quintilian
Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it. 2 sayings from Robinson Jeffers
Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading. 3 quotes from Michael Tippett
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. 8 quotes from James Dean
Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination. 19 quotes from Alfred North Whitehead
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. 25 quotes from Simone Weil
Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper! 6 quotes from George William Curtis
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant. 73 other quotes from Victor Hugo
Man lives by imagination. 16 quotes from Havelock Ellis
One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm. 6 other wisdom & wit from Ella Maillart
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. 24 quotes from James Russell Lowell
The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination. 4 wisdom & wit from George Meredith
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do. 21 more wisdom & wit from Anais Nin
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. 23 other thoughts from Thomas A. Edison
To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination. 12 quotes from George Jean Nathan
A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing. 3 more quotes from Charles M. Schwab
The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination. 4 quotes from James A. Michener