Top 997 Imagination Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.

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.

True change takes place in the imagination.

My imagination completely controls me, and forever feeds the fire that burns with dark red light in my heart by bringing me the best dreams. I've always had a wild imagination, a big heart and a tortured soul so I feel that dark fantasy, love and horror are in my blood.

Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

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

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.

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.

In summation, like your beloved pet rock, Twitter is useful only in your imagination.

Girls are capable of doing everything men are capable of doing. Sometimes they have more imagination than men.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

Our imagination just needs space. It's all it needs, that moment where you just sort of stare into the distance where your brain gets to sort of somehow rise up.

I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.

It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care.

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

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.

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

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

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.

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

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

Age isn't an attraction. Imagination is.

Music inspires contemplation, dreams, and the imagination.

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.

Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.

It's a failure of imagination if you can only write what you know - we have to be able to imagine different worlds.

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

I have truly been inspired by the struggle and triumphs of so many women that dare to break new ground in all aspects of society, and those who have pushed the boundaries of human imagination.

The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.

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

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.

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

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw.

Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.

A puppet, for example, is just a piece of wood, a couple of rivets, but put them together, and if you know how to do it, and the audience's imagination joins in with this, then a miracle will come out of that machine. That is what we and the audience do in the theatre - we create miracles in that space.

Fantasy has a dark side to it. It also has a light hemisphere - the power of the human imagination to keep going, to imagine a better tomorrow.

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.

I love video games. I'm also slightly in awe of them. I'm in awe of their power in terms of imagination, in terms of technology, in terms of concept. But I think, above all, I'm in awe at their power to motivate, to compel us, to transfix us, like really nothing else we've ever invented has quite done before.

Your skills may not be anything out of the ordinary, but you can do miraculous things with what you've got. Maybe it's your parenting skills, or your compassion. It may be your curiosity, your imagination or unique style of fashion. Even if it seems to be no big deal, the lesson here is we all have unique abilities and talents.

I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.

One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

Everybody has that outlet in life when they're going through different stuff. They like to do different stuff whether it's reading books or watching movies. My outlet was going to comic books because it got me out of this world and put me into that world and let me use my imagination.

Many scientists think that philosophy has no place, so for me it's a sad time because the role of reflection, contemplation, meditation, self inquiry, insight, intuition, imagination, creativity, free will, is in a way not given any importance, which is the domain of philosophers.

Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.

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.

Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. The best ones leave a tantalising gap between the pictures and the words, a gap that is filled by the reader's imagination, adding so much to the excitement of reading a book.

It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.

The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.

There is definitely a 'red carpet moment' to a bride's wedding day, but when designing for bridal, it is important to focus on the details that will captivate and capture the imagination of the bride - she has to fall in love with the gown.

Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.