Quotes for Imagination

I was raised not to be afraid to show emotion or imagination.

Javier Bardem

'A Princess of Mars' may not have exerted the same colossal pull that Tarzan had on the global imagination, but its influence on generations of readers cannot be underestimated.

Junot Diaz

Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.

L. Frank Baum

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.

John Burroughs

Few people have the imagination for reality.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There are two 'Snow White' movies coming out for the same reason that you remember back in the day there was 'Armageddon' and then 'Deep Impact.' You know, 'Andromeda Strain' and then 'Outbreak.' Like, all of those things. It's common because basically studios have no imagination in making the decisions.

Armie Hammer

I've spent my life butting my head against other people's lack of imagination.

Nick Cave

My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form, whether visual, intellectual or musical.

Michael Tippett

Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.

Michael Tippett

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

George Santayana

It's a wonderful thing working with young actors. I know a lot of people don't like working with children. I actually adore it, because you watch their imagination open up and you watch them start to learn this job that I've been doing for so long. They come with such a lack of cynicism.

Michelle Forbes

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Carl Sagan

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

e. e. cummings

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

Isaac Newton

Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.

Henry Miller

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Katherine Johnson

I'm an optimistic guy. I'm one of those big dreamers. I'm one of those kids with that annoying imagination.

Tyler, The Creator

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

Victor Hugo

Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. The best ones leave a tantalising gap between the pictures and the words, a gap that is filled by the reader's imagination, adding so much to the excitement of reading a book.

Anthony Browne