Top 547 Imaginative Quotes & Sayings

History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

The camera can push the new medium to its limits - and beyond. It is there - in the "beyond" - that the imaginative photographer will compete with the imaginative painter. Painting must return to the natural world from time to time for renewal of the artistic vision. The key sector of renewal of vision today is the new vistas revealed by science. Here photography, which is not only art but science also, stands on the firmest ground.

A culture is as rich and capable of surviving as it has imaginative artists.

You can't teach someone to be imaginative.

...it was imaginative people who tended to lie. Lying required making stuff up, and only imaginative people were good at that.

I love incredibly imaginative, speculative sci-fi.

In my actual imaginative contact with life, I am vastly more responsive to beauty than to horror - indeed, I never experience real cosmic horror except in infrequent nightmares. However, when I come to record my various imaginative experiences, I generally find that only the horror items have any uniqueness or originality. Others have seen the same beautiful things that I have seen, & have sung them more nobly.

[Science is] an imaginative adventure of the mind seeking truth in a world of mystery.

As artists, I think that one of the good qualities we have is that we're imaginative. We're resourceful. We like challenges.

That instinct for human character that is perhaps inherent in an imaginative writer.

I always have done work on mythic relations since I started writing. I really want to be a novelist, or at least a writer of imaginative work... I do try to make my critical studies imaginative and try to write them in ways that are more like literature than philosophy, but I have disappointed myself because I am still so wedded to criticism.

The imaginative faculty of the soul must be fed with objects immense and eternal.

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire.

People are not as imaginative as they think they are.

Science is competitive, aggressive, demanding. It is also imaginative, inspiring, uplifting.

Children are so creative and imaginative that they just bring you to life all over again.

If somebody is young and brilliant and imaginative, he will be listened to, even if he is a little unorthodox.

How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely different things, with no interconnection. That is all wrong. The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers. The true scientist is quite imaginative as well as rational, and sometimes leaps to solutions where reason can follow only slowly; if he does not, his science suffers.

I think of feminism as a socially just and imaginative world.

There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.

If we can come up with all sorts of imaginative ways in which people die, then I really don't see what the problem is with coming up with imaginative ways in which people can procreate.

Literature as a whole is not an aggregate of exhibits with red and blue ribbons attached to them, like a cat-show, but the range of articulate human imagination as it extends from the height of imaginative heaven to the depth of imaginative hell.

As I started to read nonfiction in the mid '70s, I discovered, holy cow, there was a lot of imaginative nonfiction. Not the kind where people use composite characters and invented quotes. I hate that kind of nonfiction. But imaginative in the sense that good writing and unexpected structure and vivid reporting could be combined with presenting facts.

The Imaginative Child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization

The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative men.

Much of the visualizing is imaginative.

Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams - day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing - are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization. A prominent educator tells me that fairy tales are of untold value in developing imagination in the young. I believe it.

I intend to be a strong Speaker. I hope to make some imaginative changes around here.

What matters is the imaginative truth.

Humans are very imaginative animals.

A good [film] director is talented, imaginative, and does his homework.

We shape ourselves by our imaginative reach.

Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.

The science fiction world has a lot of people doing seriously imaginative thinking.

'Baadshaho' is not an imaginative film, it's real and made it an entertaining way.

The great liberation of imaginative writing is that you're not held back by the facts.

Nothing is real beyond imaginative patterns men make of reality.

No writer has an imaginative power richer than what the streets offer.

Kids want to build things, and we encourage them to be as imaginative as possible on the site.

Perhaps fantasy offers imaginative escapism more than other genres.

I can't stop people from writing imaginative stories about me entering politics.

A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.

[Opera] does not call so much for an imaginative ear as for an imaginative eye, an eye which can see beyond little absurdities toward great truths.

When we have learnt through a period of finely honed training to live in Imaginative Thinking, when we can engage the whole of our being in this Imaginative Thinking, we find that it immerses us in a reality hitherto unknown to us.

Writing fiction is an act of imaginative empathy.

Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them.

My dear, beautiful and imaginative things can be destroyed. Beauty and imagination cannot.

An imaginative adventure does not enjoy the same corsets as reportage.

Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.

God is only a great imaginative experience.

Whether the poet is living or dead, they're part of our imaginative community.

A poem needs imaginative rhythms as well as imaginative transformation of content.

The great subversive works of children's literature suggest that there are other views of human life besides those of the shopping mall and the corporation. They mock current assumptions and express the imaginative, unconventional, noncommercial view of the world in its simplest and purest form. They appeal to the imaginative, questioning, rebellious child within all of us, renew our instinctive energy, and act as a force for change. This is why such literature is worthy of our attention and will endure long after more conventional tales have been forgotten.

Milton had a highly imaginative, Cowley a very fanciful mind.

I'd like to think I'm optimistic and imaginative.

I was a very imaginative and theatrical child and wasn't afraid of being in front of a camera.