Few people have the imagination for reality.
You know when you're a child and your imagination is limitless and you really believe in magic? I thought I had super powers.
In imagination, there's no limitation.
People can die of mere imagination.
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination.
When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement for civil rights, and you had plenty of elements to fire the imagination of a novice journalist.
He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
Science does not know its debt to imagination.
The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting. I think getting beyond the four edges of an opportunity or challenge is one of the basic skills you need in business.
I don't mind if what they write about me has some truth in it. Pure imagination makes me feel sad about the whole thing.
I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother?
As little boys, my brother and I used to spend hours with my grandmother, asking her about the details of how she came to America. She could only give us a smattering of details, but they all found their way into our collective imagination, eventually becoming a part of our own cultural identity and connection to the past.
By no stretch of the imagination can you describe me as a Wall Street lawyer. If you're going to do that, you'd have to say that 7,500 people who work here in Southwestern Pennsylvania for the Bank of New York Mellon with good family jobs are Wall Streeters.
'Dark Shadows' was the spark that lit the fire of my childhood imagination. It wasn't polished; it wasn't perfect. But it gave us characters with real personalities and complicated motivations.
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.
Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.
To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination.
The great thing about making picture books is that you can make absolutely anything you want happen. It's a bit like making a film, but you don't need lots of money for actors and costumes - you just need pens, paper, and your imagination.
For me, imagination would always provide a means of escape.
Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them.
I've always loved massive worlds, whether in fantasy or science fiction. I like the idea of making my own rules as well as utilizing everything that I love or inspires me. It's very freeing to know you can write a story that can be as big as your own imagination.
My children have been all over the world, and I think it's so good for them: expanding their horizons and imagination and seeing how other people live.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination.
The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.
Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too.
I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons who used it as our language is by ourselves. Nothing strange about it.
I think the thing that I really wanna bring is that I have a full world of music and imagination and ideas that I want to create as an artist, and that's my main thing that I want to do.
Dollar bills have absolutely no value except in our collective imagination, but everybody believes in the dollar bill.
The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.
An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.
