Quotes about imagination

Close your eyes and you will see.

The imagination is the eye of the soul.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

I do not paint by copying nature. Everything I do springs from my wild imagination.

Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.

One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

Oh, God, children are children, old women are old women, and nothing in between. They can’t imagine a change they can’t see.

I don't like film. Film is too clankingly real, too permanent, too industrial for me. … The worst thing about film, from my point of view, is that it cripples illusions which I have encouraged people to create in their heads. Film doesn't create illusions. It makes them impossible. It's a bullying form of reality, like the model rooms in the furniture department of Bloomingdale's.

Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.

A prosthetically enhanced imagination is still liable to failure, especially if it is not used with sufficient rigor.

To live in such a place was, for Isabel, to hold to her ear all day a shell of the sea of the past. This vague eternal rumour kept her imagination awake.

What a glorious gift is imagination, and what satisfaction it affords!