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.

“I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get most scared, anxious or worried. In those darker moments before waking or sleeping is when I feel most, I don't know, I can turn on myself, and my imagination can take me dark places.”

Florence Welch

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“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.”

Dr. Seuss

“There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.”

Jean Giraudoux

“I think what's really the most ideal thing is for the player themselves, within their own imagination, to carve out what they view as being the essence of the character.”

Shigeru Miyamoto

“Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.”

Jessamyn West

“We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials for imagination are inexhaustible here.”

Deepak Chopra

“My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.”

Ursula K. Le Guin

“The power of imagination makes us infinite.”

John Muir

“Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.”

J. K. Rowling

“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

“They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.”

Francis Bacon

“Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.”

Ernest Hemingway

“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”

Albert Einstein

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