Quotes for Imagination

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.

Edward Abbey

Let me just say that to imagine racism does not exist is imagination. And to imagine that it does not create its own set of problems is true imagination. So let's not imagine that racism is gone, extinguished, because it's not. We are seeing this in the top levels of the political arena, and we are seeing it very, very plainly.

Phylicia Rashad

Because of my faith and my imagination, I was able to enjoy my childhood, even though it was tough.

Donna Brazile

The conscious process is reflected in the imagination; the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling.

William Irwin Thompson

Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.

Walt Disney

My mother always cultivated my imagination from the time I was very little.

Alden Ehrenreich

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

Milan Kundera

When you're starting off as a young writer, you look at all the stuff that's gone before and the stuff that's influenced you, and you reach the ladle of your imagination into this bubbling stew pot of all of this stuff, and you pour it out. And that's where you start from.

Neil Gaiman

I had a pretty sexual imagination for a kid.

Janet Jackson

I feel very warm towards Mum and Dad for giving us the independence they did. My childhood, and the fact we didn't have a TV, gave me a boundless imagination.

Dido Armstrong

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Edgar Allan Poe

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

Marquis de Sade

I want to liberate my imagination and my mind with every kind of movie. That is what I wanted to do all my life.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

Salvador Dali

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

Dr. Seuss

The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.

Tony Robbins

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

Vincent Van Gogh

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

Alice Walker

One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.

Sam Levenson