It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one’s memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.
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.
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, ‘Just watch!’
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
Ray Bradbury is one who is contributing to the understanding of the imagination and the curiosity of the human race.
A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.
Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.
There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.
Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core.
For memory, we use our imagination. We take a few strands of real time and carry them with us, then like an oyster we create a pearl around them.
I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can.
It is not enough to know your craft – you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.
A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.
There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.
Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.
There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.
Background scores allow me an absolute flight of the imagination, and I travel in my mind’s eye. I do not like the scores to have vocal notes, because they act as a limitation to these flights of fancy.
With your imagination, you can go anywhere or do anything, anything is possible.
Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one’s own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.
I have always felt that the truth is prophetic, and that if you describe precisely what you see and give it life with your imagination, then what you write ought to have lasting value, no matter what the mood of your prose.
