“He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.”
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.
“I still have a photo on my wall of the greatest idol I will ever have in my life, and it's myself at eight. Because that's when the forces of imagination have the same value as the real world, when they're an instrument of survival: when my mother disappeared, and I imagined a mother. That was me at my best.”
“He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.”
“'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.”
“Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I've fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse.”
“The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.”
“Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster.”
“The man who has no imagination has no wings.”
“Jehovah God is truly rich far beyond the imagination of humankind.”
“I do a lot of curiosity buying I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination.”
“Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl in the American imagination if the United States is one of the most venal nations on Earth, it is also one of the most earnestly idealistic.”
“My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination.”
“Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.”
“Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.”
“The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.”
“Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.”
“The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him.”