Imagination Quotes

Imagination is where every invention, artwork, and act of rebellion started. These quotes celebrate the ability to see what does not yet exist and the courage it takes to bring it into the world, even when people call you crazy.

“The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.”

William Shakespeare

More Imagination Quotes

“Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.”

George Henry Lewes

“I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it's not imagination. It's just a way of watching.”

Haruki Murakami

“Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.”

Marcel Proust

“Well, I'm not a method actress by any stretch of the imagination so the best thing that I can do is be as real as possible and find whatever commonality in that character that I can see myself.”

Rashida Jones

“Ghost stories really scare me. I have such a big imagination that after I watch a horror movie like 'The Grudge', I look in the corners of my room for the next two days.”

Vanessa Hudgens

“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

“Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.”

Epictetus

“We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.”

Wallace Stevens

“The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.”

Henry Ward Beecher

“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

“If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.”

George S. Patton

“To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.”

Quintilian

“He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.”

Joseph Joubert

“Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.”

Vincent Van Gogh

“Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.”

Simone Weil

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