Imagination Quotes

Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.

Imagination is more important than knowledge ...

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination.

Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.

If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself...that a tiger is an optical illusion--well, he will find out he is wrong. The tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive.

Play the picture in your mind - focus on the end result.

First published by Rossetti in Gilchrist's Life of William Blake (1863), it was composed between 1800 - 1803 http://www.artofeurope.com/blake/bla3.htm

The human imagination...has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.

The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture, a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder brewed from the richness of individual lives.

Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people's plates.

Your imagination, my dear fellow, is worth more than you imagine.

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.

The people who are willing to talk about imagination rarely have much. Imagination is a guilty secret, usually, a passion best kept inside the privacy of one's own skull.

Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.