The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.
Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.
I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.
Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.
Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.
Reading a book, watching a movie, going to a play, it's transporting, and very, very exciting. And to be a part of that, creating things with your imagination, whoa.
It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income.
There aren't any fences to the imagination, and so there shouldn't be any for books.
Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.
The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.
Some music comes from a real place; some music comes from your imagination. It's difficult to find out what's real and what's not, especially with the gangster stuff.
Sadly, semi-consciousness, along with daydreaming, is a capacity that is actively discouraged among children in schools, and our society is much poorer and harsher as a consequence. The value of liminal space and transitional imagination remain personally and culturally undeveloped.
The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be.
Meeting Australian mountaineer and author Tim Macartney-Snape when I was 16 in 1994 had a big impact on me. His ascent of Everest from sea to summit captured my imagination.
The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon.
Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.
I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me. I believed this because my sister Emily convinced me of it when I was a toddler. I think she'd seen Invasion of the Body Snatchers and her imagination ran away with her. There's a part of me that still believes it.
I think what's really the most ideal thing is for the player themselves, within their own imagination, to carve out what they view as being the essence of the character.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.
When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.
Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.
Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.
When television captured the popular imagination of the 1950s, a rash of movies satirized Hollywood while also mythologizing it.
I was brought up in a very open, rural countryside in the middle of nowhere. There were no cell phones. If your lights went out, you were lit by candlelight for a good four days before they can get to you. And so, my imagination was crazy.
First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
But the greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out. You want the listener to find the song on their own. If you give too much away, it takes away from the imagination.
If you're so afraid of your imagination that you stifle it, how are you going to know God? How can you imagine heaven?
The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.
Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success on the stage.
Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.
Sometimes good television doesn't depend on money, it depends on imagination and good people directing, casting and doing the job with talented people.
I don't think there is such a thing as pure imagination. I think it's a combination of memory and invention.
Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible.
