Imagination Quotes

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

Edmund Burke

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

Elizabeth Bowen

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

e. e. cummings

When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.

Emile Coue

I definitely gravitate towards quality genre projects and genre of any kind whether it's science fiction, horror or really anything. I'm just drawn to quality. I don't think 'Darkness Falls' is horror; there isn't any gore by any stretch of the imagi...

Emma Caulfield

It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.

Edgar Degas

The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.

Elizabeth Drew

I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination.

Edi Gathegi

Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.

Eduard Hanslick

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

Edward Hopper

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

Ernest Hemingway

People seem to have trouble with the imagination. They can't believe that you can just pull things out of your brain like that.

Edward P. Jones

Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.

Eartha Kitt

It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.

Edouard Manet

One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.

Ella Maillart

I'm an emotional sort of person in general and I have a vivid imagination, so I feel the whole spectrum of emotion strongly when I write.

Erin Morgenstern
Imagination quotes by Edgar Allan Poe, UberQuotes

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.

Edgar Allan Poe

I'll be happy if I can gain even the smallest place inside the literary imagination of U.S. readers.

Elliot Perlman

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

Epictetus

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.

Eddie Rickenbacker

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother?

Ernst Toller