Imagination Quotes

We can live with lots of things, but we can't live without imagination, we can't live without hope.

~ Ariel Dorfman

If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling, filled with imagination and with appetite for the new and with respect for the old - somebody who takes good care of things and of people.

~ Connie Nielsen

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

~ John Muir

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

~ Gloria Steinem

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

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

~ Denis Waitley

I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.

~ Man Ray

I'll tell you this: You have to remember to chase and catch your dreams, because if you don't, your imagination will live in empty spaces, and that's nowhere land.

~ Gary Busey

Films are dreams. Many, many critics say to me that my films are not good because they are too unbelievable, but this is my style. I tell stories like they are dreams. This is my imagination. For me, it would be impossible to do a film that is so precise, that resembles real life.

~ Dario Argento

You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know.

~ Steven Spielberg

Actors, their greatest tool, their greatest resource is imagination. You can take things, power objects, you can recruit your dreams, you can access your memories and get there. So the idea is not to act but to just be.

~ Nicolas Cage

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

~ Judy Garland

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

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.

~ Horace Walpole

I admired Stephen Daldry very much; I think he's a brilliant director, and also, I feel close to him because he has a lot of theater behind him. He's also a man of great imagination and a lovely sense of humor.

~ Max Von Sydow

The more women sit down and write something in a woman's voice for a woman, they more you'll see women in comedy because gender doesn't define sense of humor. Imagination and intelligence and perspective do.

~ Kristen Schaal

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

~ Bill Moyers

For me, it's always a failure of the imagination. I have that anxiety that time is passing, that everything is ultimately fleeting and impermanent. I better take advantage of every single moment.

~ Jason Silva

In fiction workshops, we tend to focus on matters of verisimilitude largely because such issues are so much easier to talk about than the failure of imagination.

~ Tim O'brien

I don't know if it's a failure of imagination on my part, but I'm not going to be writing about Paris in the 1800s. I feel like it would come off as just ludicrously uninformed, even if I did a lot of research.

~ Maria Semple

The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.

~ Ben Okri

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.

~ Edward Abbey

Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.

~ William Irwin Thompson

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

~ Voltaire

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.

~ Juliette Gordon Low

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.

~ Helen Rowland

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

~ H. L. Mencken

Isn't it crazy to think that we've explored space more than we have explored the depths of our ocean? That just fires up my imagination about potential sea monsters and cool creatures, that kind of stuff.

~ James Wan

What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.

~ Shia Labeouf

I'm in this really cool place in my career, where the stage I'm on that night, whether it's the Paisley tour, the CMT tour, or a bar with 10 people in it, it is the most important show I've ever played in my life. I go to the ends of my imagination to do something that's unforgettable every night.

~ Charlie Worsham

In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

~ Wallace Stevens

I never in my wildest imagination dreamed that I would somehow become a sports commentator.

~ Joe Rogan

Anything that stimulates the public's imagination about the nobility and the importance of space exploration is something that I'm very excited to be a part of.

~ Ron Howard

Sadly, semi-consciousness, along with daydreaming, is a capacity that is actively discouraged among children in schools, and our society is much poorer and harsher as a consequence. The value of liminal space and transitional imagination remain personally and culturally undeveloped.

~ Michael Leunig

As an actor, our very palette is one of imagination. So it is a walk onto an empty space and then imagine the world beyond it is what we do.

~ Rhys Ifans

I've always been interested in technology, but specifically how we can use machines to engage the imagination. I started using computers when I was young and was fascinated by creating rules and instructions that allow a computer to engage in a dialogue with humans. The stories found in the data all around us can do just that.

~ Aaron Koblin

Pulp existed for 12 years before we got famous. Now, you could say that was just lack of imagination, but it's some kind of quality isn't it? Tenacity. You could also say it was sloth.

~ Jarvis Cocker

See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

~ Richard P. Feynman

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

~ Jean Giraudoux

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge