Quotes for Imagination

The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.

Richard Wright

Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...'; And then do it.

Duane Michals

What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.

Kerry Thornley

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

Elizabeth Bowen

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

Albert Einstein

Ideas control the world.

James A. Garfield

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

Jessamyn West

I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me.

Robertson Davies

Cooking with kids is not just about ingredients, recipes, and cooking. It's about harnessing imagination, empowerment, and creativity.

Guy Fieri

Courses in the humanities, in particular, often seem impractical, but they are vital, because they stretch your imagination and challenge your mind to become more responsive, more critical, bigger.

Martha Nussbaum

People can die of mere imagination.

Geoffrey Chaucer

The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.

Seamus Heaney

At least since the Industrial Revolution, the world of design has been dominated by the rigors of manufacturing and mass production. Assembly lines have dictated a world made of parts, framing the imagination of designers and architects who have been trained to think about their objects as assemblies of discrete parts with distinct functions.

Neri Oxman

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too.

Joyce Cary

If you don't pay attention and if your imagination isn't pretty much engaged, you're going to miss things and you're going to miss opportunities for it to be as compelling and as creepy as it can be.

Bruce Greenwood

Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination.

Lionel Stander

I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.

Billy Connolly

Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.

Christopher Fry

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Ralph Waldo Emerson