“Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.”
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“Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.”
“Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.”
“I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.”
“The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.”
“When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination.”
“I'll confess right here that I secretly wish I'd have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination.”
“To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.”
“To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.”
“All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.”
“Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.”
“I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn't that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that's when your creativity is developed, when you're young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to.”
“I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman.”
“Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.”
“Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.”
“The development of beauty in chess never depends on you alone. No matter how much imagination and creativity you invest, you still do not create beauty. Your opponent must react at the same highest level.”
“Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination... a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.”
“Innovation is this amazing intersection between someone's imagination and the reality in which they live. The problem is, many companies don't have great imagination, but their view of reality tells them that it's impossible to do what they imagine.”
“To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.”
“Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.”
“I can't satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as an art form as much as it used to be.”
“I don't think art is propaganda it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.”
“Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.”
“Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.”