Quotes for Imagination

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

Oscar Wilde

Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made.

Bruce Catton

I've read up on magic, and I think it sets you free, and it gives you hope. You can explore worlds you didn't know existed. It stretches your imagination, and I like my own imagination to be stretched and also the children I'm telling the story to. It gives you a sense of wonder.

Jenny Nimmo

Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.

Felix Bloch

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

Albert Einstein

But the greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out. You want the listener to find the song on their own. If you give too much away, it takes away from the imagination.

Diana Krall

I know kids who say they have nothing to do and then go plop themselves down in front of the television to watch a movie or play Nintendo or Xbox. I think there is nothing better for killing creativity and imagination.

Alexandra Adornetto

When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.

Ahmet Zappa

Busted is not the ideal band I'd like to be in by any stretch of the imagination.

Charlie Simpson

I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.

Carlos Fuentes

The wonderful thing is, imagination is universal all over the world, no matter what the language is.

Roy Horn

My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.

Andrew Bird

I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination.

Cornelia Funke

I spend a lot of time practicing active imagination before I go to sleep. What I'm feeling will manifest as images through active imagination. And then I go to sleep, and those play out even more in my dreams.

Jeff Mangum

The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.

Alexander Cockburn

The American imagination has never been able to fully recover from its white-supremacist beginnings.

Claudia Rankine

They are imaginary characters. But perhaps not solely the products of my imagination, since there are some aspects of the characters that relate to my own experience of a wide variety of people.

Margaret Mahy

The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.

Sarah Fielding

Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.

Irving Howe

Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success on the stage.

Ellen Terry