- Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
- Victor Hugo on Imagination
- It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez on Imagination
- It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.
- Ursula K. Le Guin on Imagination
- 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.
- Edgar Degas on Imagination
- It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care.
- Paul Farmer on Imagination
- It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.
- H. L. Mencken on Imagination
- 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.
- Edouard Manet on Imagination
- It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?
- Cesare Pavese on Imagination
- It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object beware of this stumbling block.
- Paul Gauguin on Imagination
- It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.
- Robert South on Imagination
- It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart it being much more sensitive.
- Henry David Thoreau on Imagination
- It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.
- David Bailey on Imagination
- It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income.
- Leonard Orr on Imagination
- It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today.
- Michael Apted on Imagination
- It takes no imagination to live within your means.
- Francis Ford Coppola on Imagination
- It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people's imagination, and all of them were very difficult women.
- Elizabeth Wurtzel on Imagination
- It was like there was a pile of kindling that was in the back of my imagination just waiting there. Once I lit it, it just flared up and I kept getting ideas and ideas.
- Kevin J. Anderson on Imagination
- It will take some time before a politician will capture the imagination of the American people and have the vision and understanding to do what is necessary for a better future for the people of America and the world.
- David Korten on Imagination
- It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.
- Martha Gellhorn on Imagination
- It would be too frightening for me to consider myself a role model. But I like the idea of not being afraid of letting your imagination rule you, to feel the freedom of expression, to let creativity be your overwhelming drive rather than other things.
- Florence Welch on Imagination
- It's a great excuse and luxury, having a job and blaming it for your inability to do your own art. When you don't have to work, you are left with the horror of facing your own lack of imagination and your own emptiness. A devastating possibility when finally time is your own.
- Julian Schnabel on Imagination
- It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the character that I'm playing.
- Jack Nicholson on Imagination
- It's a wonderful thing working with young actors. I know a lot of people don't like working with children. I actually adore it, because you watch their imagination open up and you watch them start to learn this job that I've been doing for so long. They come with such a lack of cynicism.
- Michelle Forbes on Imagination
- It's definitely true that there are a lot of the devices we used on 'Star Trek,' that came out the imagination of the writers, and the creators that are actually in the world today.
- LeVar Burton on Imagination
- It's just a way of trying to get to a third thing that's not particular to any quote-unquote genre. It's been great for me it's really opened me up and gotten me to use that part of my imagination. It's very scary in a lot of ways, and just as exciting.
- Charlie Hunter on Imagination
- It's not only imagination, it's the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this person has dreams, when you know better most of the time. You put what you want to see on people.
- Olivier Martinez on Imagination
- It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.
- Alexander McCall Smith on Imagination
- It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that.
- Robin Wright Penn on Imagination
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