“My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.”
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.
“Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.”
“My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.”
“Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.”
“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.”
“To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.”
“You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.”
“Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.”
“I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.”
“Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?”
“I guess I'm a very keen observer, and I'd like to think I have a good imagination.”
“I always imagined I could be what I wanted to be.”
“The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.”
“Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.”
“Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.”
“The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.”