To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.
Wallace StevensThere are two worlds, the world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imaginations
Leigh HuntI dare to be great. The man without imagination stands unhurt and hath no wings. This is my credo, this is my forte.
Don KingThere is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheApathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.
Arnold ToynbeeTo speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
George Jean NathanThe imagination is man's power over nature.
Wallace StevensReason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
C S LewisIn real cricket, the player who has developed imagination and skill mkaes the game, but in the one day match it is the other way round. The match dictates to the player.
Brian CloseMy imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
John KeatsThe soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
Henry Ward Beecher Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humour was provided to console him for what he is.
Oscar WildeEvery great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
John DeweyEverything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
Joseph AddisonTake the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.
Bernard BaruchA financier is a pawnbroker with imagination.
Arthur W PineroIt takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.
David BaileyA man with a music-hall imagination [on Johnston]
John ArlottThe past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future
Jessamyn WestImagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can.
Ingrid BengisIt is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?
Cesare PaveseWe remember not the scores and the results in after years; it is the men who remain in our minds, in our imagination.
Neville CardusThis is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.
Adam SmithI 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.
Claire DanesHe is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
Henry JamesThere are all sorts of topics and themes that just recur time and time again, which either means people have less imagination or that people never get bored of them... or both!
Buck HenryCowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
Ernest HemingwayIt's amazing what you can do with an E in A-level art, twisted imagination and a chainsaw. [He won the Turner Prize]
Damien HirstThings are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWorks of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeLyrically I like to use themes that make the listener use his or her imagination, and to give a little of the lessons I've learned in my own life.
Ronnie DioAlways have a vivid imagination, for you never know when you might need it
J K RowlingAnd by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
Sylvia PlathImagination is the highest kite one can fly.
Lauren BacallImagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert EinsteinNeither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Wolfgang Amadeus MozartLiberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
Ambrose BiercePhilosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.
Isaac DisraeliAnyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination.
James FarmerThe moon develops the imagination, as chemicals develop photographic images.
Sheila BallantyneBut fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.
Iris MurdochScience does not know its debt to imagination.
Ralph Waldo EmersonLife is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.
Bill HicksTo invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Thomas EdisonSomethings are best left to the imagination and some things that can be spoken are better off not said.
Lori Ann FelkerYou can make sounds and music out of pretty much anything with a little imagination and putting your mind to it!
Stan FrebergSome books stretch the imagination. This one mugs it. [On the novel Spares]
David BaddielImagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Carl SaganFacts have long since upstaged fiction, and the novelistic imagination now contents itself with documenting incidents it wouldn't have the temerity to invent.
Peter ConradHe's still a relatively young captain but he shows real imagination and his fields are well thought out, it just depends, sometimes you have to stop the fours, sometimes you can let them go by [on Michael Vaughan]
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