- They seem much rarer now, those auteur films that come out of a director's imagination and are elliptical and hermetic. All those films that got me into independent cinema when I was watching it seem thin on the ground.
- Toby Jones on Imagination
- Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!
- Dr. Seuss on Imagination
- This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.
- Adam Smith on Imagination
- This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
- Henry David Thoreau on Imagination
- Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.
- Vincent Van Gogh on Imagination
- Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.
- Edgar Allan Poe on Imagination
- Three centuries after the appearance of Franklin's 'Courant,' it no longer requires a dystopic imagination to wonder who will have the dubious distinction of publishing America's last genuine newspaper. Few believe that newspapers in their current printed form will survive.
- Eric Alterman on Imagination
- To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
- Lord Chesterfield on Imagination
- To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
- Anatole France on Imagination
- To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
- Thomas A. Edison on Imagination
- To me, it's far more efficient to mobilize the imagination. It's far more efficient to hear a creaking step, for example, than to see the face of a monster, which usually looks ridiculous, and where you know that the blood is ketchup.
- Michael Haneke on Imagination
- To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
- Quintilian on Imagination
- 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.
- Frank Auerbach on Imagination
- To put up a show is to face life's injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people, their imagination.
- Luigi Barzini on Imagination
- To put yourself in another's place requires real imagination, but by doing so each Girl Scout will be able to love among others happily.
- Juliette Gordon Low on Imagination
- To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
- Albert Einstein on Imagination
- To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.
- Wallace Stevens on Imagination
- To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
- George Jean Nathan on Imagination
- To them though, not to us, we were just a catalyst for their imagination.
- Donald Sutherland on Imagination
- To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.
- Thomas Traherne on Imagination
- To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.
- Isaac D'Israeli on Imagination
- To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
- John Burroughs on Imagination
- Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective.
- Karen Armstrong on Imagination
- Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.
- Cyril Connolly on Imagination
- Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination.
- Tim Robbins on Imagination
- True change takes place in the imagination.
- Thomas Moore on Imagination
- True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.
- Ian Mcewan on Imagination
- Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...' And then do it.
- Duane Michals on Imagination
- Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.
- Marquis De Sade on Imagination
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