Imagination quotes
Welcome to our collection of quotes on Imagination. Imagination is a powerful and wondrous part of the human mind that allows us to envision, create, and explore new possibilities. It is the key to innovation, artistic expression, and personal growth. Through imagination, we can transcend the confines of reality and venture into the realm of dreams and possibilities.
Within this category, you will find a curated selection of quotes from notable individuals who have recognized and celebrated the importance of imagination. These quotes inspire us to engage our minds, think creatively, and tap into the endless potential that lies within each of us.
Imagination has played a pivotal role in the world of literature, art, science, and numerous other fields. It has enabled great thinkers, inventors, and artists to reshape our understanding of the world and push the boundaries of what is possible. As you explore these quotes, you will discover insights and perspectives that encourage you to embrace and harness the power of your own imagination.
Whether you seek inspiration, motivation, or a fresh perspective, we hope that this collection of quotes on Imagination will spark your creativity and ignite the fire of imagination within you. So, dive into these quotes and let your mind soar to new heights.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorI see the world in ways that might be considered somewhat harsh and Darwinistic. At the same time mediated, as in Darwin, by a real idealism and an excitement about the possibilities of the intellect and imagination to deal with this somewhat brutal world.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterThe mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
Flora Thompson
— NovelistSpecial qualities are required of the essayist. A poem or a novel may spring from the inner consciousness of an author. Reasoning poers must be brought to reinforce imagination.
Antonio Machado
— PoetI dreamt -- marvellous error! -- that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures.
Patricia Piccinini
— ArtistI don't want the ideas to be limited by what I can physically do. The ideas come first.
James Fitzjames Stephen
— Eminent Lawyer, Judge & Thoughtful WriterThus hope, aided by imagination, makes one man a hero, another a somnambulist, and a third a lunatic; while it renders them all enthusiasts.
E. B. White
— Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved ClassicsWrite about it by day and dream about it by night.
Diana Krall
— Acclaimed Jazz Vocalist & PianistBut the greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out. You want the listener to find the song on their own. If you give too much away, it takes away from the imagination.
Stan Lee
— Comic Book Icon & Creator of Marvel HeroesWe all wish we had super powers. We all wish we could do more than we can do.
Harvey Mackay
— Business Guru & Motivational SpeakerWe start out as pretty creative beings... Children let their imaginations take them to place they've never seen and do things that seem impossible. We encourage it as fun and playtime, but we should celebrate it as the potential for great discovery and accomplishment.
Nigel Sylvester
— Innovative BMX PioneerIt's always a pleasure to imagine an idea and work alongside a brand like G-Shock to make it a reality. G-Shock continues to push the bar with design and technology and that inspires me to do the same with my riding and visuals.
Aisha Tyler
— American actress, comedian, director, and talk show hostI visualize myself winning the Olympic Pentathlon, inventing a phone that can be controlled by brain waves, or doing the laundry. I do not actually DO these things, but I see myself doing them, and that is almost MORE satisfying, because I am also lying down.
Peter Robinson
— British-born Canadian crime writerI think writers have to be able to enjoy solitude rather than just endure it. I've always enjoyed being left alone with my imagination, ever since I was a kid.
Eli Roth
— American film director, producer, and actorOne of the great elements of the supernatural is having that mystery and letting people's imaginations run wild with it.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorI tend to think in dramatic terms. In life, there may be an actual drama, but it would be the fictionalized, imagined drama that engaged me.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterI have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
Antonio Machado
— PoetBetween living and dreaming there is a third thing. Guess it.
E. B. White
— Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved ClassicsBut real life is only one kind of life—there is also the life of the imagination.
Diana Krall
— Acclaimed Jazz Vocalist & PianistSo much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.
Stan Lee
— Comic Book Icon & Creator of Marvel HeroesComic books to me are fairy tales for grown-ups.
Ricky Martin
— MusicianI played Luke Skywalker. Every time we played, I was Luke Skywalker. Nobody else could be Luke Skywalker.
Peter Robinson
— British-born Canadian crime writerI like newspaper stories that are incomplete, that give me room to imagine the rest. It's no good to me reading about something that's all neatly solved and wrapped up. That's why so many of my stories revolve around human psychology, around why someone commits a certain crime, or series of crimes. I don't profess to know the answers but I like to explore the possibilities.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorObviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterWriting is nothing more than a guided dream.
E. B. White
— Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved ClassicsLiberty is never out of bounds or off limits; it spreads wherever it can capture the imagination of men.
Stan Lee
— Comic Book Icon & Creator of Marvel HeroesMARVEL IS A CORNUCOPIA OF FANTASY, A WILD IDEA , A SWASHBUCKLING ATTITUDE , AN ESCAPE FROM THE HUMDRUM AND PROSAIC. IT'S A SERENDIPITOUS FEAST FOR THE MIND, THE EYE , AND THE IMAGINATION, A LITERATE CELEBRATION OF UNBRIDLED CREATIVITY, COUPLED WITH A TOUCH OF REBELLION AND AN INSOLENT DESIRE TO SPIT IN THE EYE OF THE DRAGON.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorAfter my parents passed away - in 2000 and 2003 - I felt I could take the time to think about the past and imagine what it would have been like to be my grandmother.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterMan's memory shapes Its own Eden within
Stan Lee
— Comic Book Icon & Creator of Marvel HeroesI think people have always loved things that are bigger than life, things that are imaginative.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorBut he doesn't love her. I invented that. It is a plot if you imagine people in love--the lazy looping criss crosses of love, blows, stares, tears. No. It doesn't happen. No love. People meet, touch, stare into one another's faces, shake their heads clear, move on, forget. It doesn't happen.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterI have always come to life after coming to books.
Stan Lee
— Comic Book Icon & Creator of Marvel HeroesVirtually every kid is exposed to giants and ogres and talking wolves, and so forth. And magic. And I think you never outgrow your love for those imaginative, fanciful, farfetched, fantastic characters and situations.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorI learned long ago that being Lewis Carroll was infinitely more exciting than being Alice.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterA man sets out to draw the world. As the years go by, he peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, instruments, stars, horses, and individuals. A short time before he dies, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the lineaments of his own face.
Stan Lee
— Comic Book Icon & Creator of Marvel HeroesSome people will say, "Why read a comic book? It stifles the imagination. If you read a novel you imagine what people are like. If you read a comic, it's showing you." The only answer I can give is, "You can read a Shakespeare play, but does that mean you wouldn't want to see it on the stage?
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorRunning! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think what it might be. In running the mind flies with the body; the mysterious efflorescence of language seems to pulse in the brain, in rhythm with our feet and the swinging of our arms.
Stan Lee
— Comic Book Icon & Creator of Marvel HeroesI think people are interested in anything that's a little bigger than life and that's colorful and - you know, what they like? They like fairy tales for grownups.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorFor the writer, the serial killer is, abstractly, an analogue of the imagination's caprices and amorality; the sense that, no matter the dictates and even the wishes of the conscious social self, the life or will or purpose of the imagination is incomprehensible, unpredictable.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterAs a boy, I used to marvel that the letters in a closed book did not get scrambled and lost overnight.
Stan Lee
— Comic Book Icon & Creator of Marvel HeroesThe way I'm doing it is I'm trying to think to myself, "Okay, I have the name Superman, and he's going to be a guy that deserves the name 'Superman.' I'm trying to forget about Krypton, about The Daily Planet what would I do if I was thinking it up?" I can do it any way at all..I can make him an Eskimo midget who's toothless and blind... I can do anything. It's difficult .
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorLike all virtuous people he imagines he must speak the truth.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterI foresee that man will resign himself each day to more atrocious undertakings; soon there will be no one but warriors and brigands; I give them this counsel: The author of an atrocious undertaking ought to imagine that he has already accomplished it, ought to impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterI came to the idea of how fine it would be to think of an encyclopedia of an actual world, and then of an encyclopedia, a very rigorous one of course, of an imaginary world, where everything should be linked.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorNovels begin, not on the page, but in meditation and day-dreaming - In thinking, not writing.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorNot what the mind sees, but what the mind imagines the eye must see.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorMy writing is full of lives I might have led.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorRunning! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorChildhood is the province of the imagination and when I immerse myself in it, I re-create it as it was, as it could have been, as I wanted - and didn't want - it to be.