Imagination Quotes

Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else.

Vivien Leigh

A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.

Vladimir Nabokov

The innovative process is a fragile one, dependent on a complex, often messy interplay of imagination, competition, and exchange. Curbing new ideas hurts not only individual creators but the audience for which they create and the posterity that inher...

Virginia Postrel

The theater itself is a lie. Its deaths are mere special effects. Its tales never happened. Even the histories are distorted for dramatic effect. The theater is unnatural, a place of imagination. But the theater tells the audience something true: tha...

Virginia Postrel

I did not go to any creative writing workshop; I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone can write. All it needs is imagination.

Vikas Swarup

What is now proved was once only imagined.

William Blake

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

William Blake

Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.

Walt Disney

I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be.

Whoopi Goldberg

There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.

William Godwin

A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.

William Hazlitt

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

Washington Irving

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.

William Ralph Inge

'Dark Shadows' was the spark that lit the fire of my childhood imagination. It wasn't polished; it wasn't perfect. But it gave us characters with real personalities and complicated motivations.

William J. Mann

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

W. Somerset Maugham

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

William Shakespeare

The conscious process is reflected in the imagination; the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling.

William Irwin Thompson

The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.

William Trevor
Imagination quotes by William Arthur Ward, UberQuotes

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.

William Arthur Ward

Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.

William Warburton

Everybody in their own imagination decides what scary is.

Yvonne Craig