Quotes about Imagination

“If you can dream it, you can do it.”
― Walt Disney Company


“Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.”
― Jonathan Swift



“Lovers and madmen have such seething brains
Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend
More than cool reason ever comprehends.
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― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream


“Those who make us believe that anything’s possible and fire our imagination over the long haul, are often the ones who have survived the bleakest of circumstances. The men and women who have every reason to despair, but don’t, may have the most to teach us, not only about how to hold true to our beliefs, but about how such a life can bring about seemingly impossible social change. ”
― Paul Rogat Loeb, The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear




“Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.”
― Marcel Proust, The Captive & The Fugitive


“The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau



“Hate is a lack of imagination.”
― Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory




“The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451




“My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden





“Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.”
― Mark Twain

“A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it to be God.”
― Sidney Sheldon




“The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse. ”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement




“Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything godlike about God, it is that. He dared to imagine everything”
― Henry Miller, Sexus



“Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.”
― Ann Patchett, Truth and Beauty



“Some might think that the creativity, imagination, and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity.”
― Vladimir Nabokov



“To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.” 
― Anatole France


“Imagination means nothing without doing.”
― Charles Chaplin



“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.”
― William Blake




“There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.”
― G.K. Chesterton


“Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables



“An idea is salvation by imagination”
― Frank Lloyd Wright



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