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" Quotes and Sayings About the imagination

Character halts without aid of the imagination, which our classes in Shakespeare and Browning, music and drawing, recognize not only as amusement and by-play of the mind, but a co-ordinate power. Its work is unhappily styled fiction; for to idealize is to realize.

Halt Aid Power Mind
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Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.

Music Soul Universe Wing
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Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order and lends to all that is good and just and beautiful.

Moral Law Soul Universe
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The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.

Artist Failure Fewer Gesture
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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.

Artifice Extent Imagination Life
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The imagination is man's power over nature.

Imagination Man Nature Over
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The imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
Everywhere Golden Imagination Pathway
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Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

Awake Clearly Does Dreams
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He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.

He Heart Imagination Senses
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I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

Child Doubt Eradicated Grow
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It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.

Above Achieve Compassion Hope
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As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

Above Achieve Children Compassion
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A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate.

Birth Certificate Imagination Live
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And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

About Creativity Nemy Everything
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Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

Ability Almost Always Cowardice
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Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
Imagination Leaves Lot Reality
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.

Candle Dark God High
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In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

Forces Imagination Nature Words
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This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.

Baffled Cases Facts Imagination
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A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.

Poet Precision Scientist Writer
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.

Affects Brand Censorship Experienced
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
Few Few People Imagination People
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If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.

Accent Also Betrayed Birth
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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
Great Instrument Moral Imagination
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To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.

Advance Boy Critical Develops
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A picture is first of all a product of the imagination of the artist; it must never be a copy.

Picture First Product Imagination
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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.

Alike Any Character Had
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It is necessary to mark the greater from the lesser truth: namely the larger and more liberal idea of nature from the comparatively narrow and confined; namely that which addresses itself to the imagination from that which is solely addressed to the eye.

Eye Imagination Addresses Ideas
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The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.
Pleasures Imagination Drawings Models
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Art is the sex of the imagination.

Art Sex Imagination
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To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

Speak Morals Art Legislature
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One thing about 'Star Wars' that I'm really proud of is that it expands the imagination. That's why I like the 'Star Wars' toys.

One thing Proud Expands Imagination
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Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

Imagination Keyboard Like Note
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Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

Character Imagination Society Solitude
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The imagination, backed by great expectations, can bring about almost any reality within the range of probabilities.

The imagination Great expectations
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Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.

Happiness Abstraction Imagination
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.

Book Device Ignite Imagination
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Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination.

Language Exists Record Liberate
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Happiness is in the imagination. What we perform is always inferior to what we imagine.

Happiness Imagination Perform Inferior
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Romances, in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination than to inform the judgment.
Romances Fire Imagination Judgment
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The imagination is closer to the actor than real life-more agreeable, more comfortable.

Imagination Actor Life Comfortable
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It is the childlike part of us that produces works of the imagination. When we were children time passed so slow with us that we seemed to have time for everything.

Works Imagination Children Time
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Fiction and poetry are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.

Poetry Medicines Reality Imagination
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Nothing can be more limiting to the imagination than only writing about what you know

Limiting Imagination Writing Know
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I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination

Holiness Heart's Truth Imagination
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Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

Music Soul Mind Imagination
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