Imagination Quotes - Page 48

An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.

What use is my mind? Granted that it enables me to hail a bus and to pay my fare. But once I am inside my studio, what use is my mind? I have my model, my pencil, my paints. My mind doesn't interest me.

I think we live only through our dreams and our imagination.

So 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.

If you don't have imagination, you stop being human; animals don't have imagination; Alzheimer's is the death of imagination.

To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination

I'm not a passive person by any stretch of the imagination.

The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.

It's usually easier to rouse stupidity to action than to arouse wisdom to effort, for wisdom sees alternatives while stupidity lacks the imagination to do this. All sinister interests in a country can depend ultimately upon the strength of stupidity.

Vegetarianism is an act of the imagination. It reflects an ability to imagine alternatives to the texts of meat.

The artists we love, they put their fingerprint on your imagination, and on your heart and your soul.

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'

You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.

Imagination, on the contrary, which is ever wandering beyond the bounds of truth, joined to self-love and that self-confidence we are so apt to indulge, prompt us to draw conclusions which are not immediately derived from facts.

When you're reading something, your imagination goes and you see it in your mind. Sometimes my instincts with that are right, and sometimes they're wrong.

Reading supplies bread for imagination to feed on and bones for it to chew on.

It takes a certain amount of intelligence and imagination to realize the extraordinary queerness and mysteriousness of the world in which we live.

Myths are made for the imagination to breath life into them.

Research, though toilsome, is easy; imagination, though delightful, is difficult.

I am going to try speaking some reckless words, and I want you to try to listen recklessly.

Better to be caught in sudden, complete catastrophe than to be gnawed by the cancer of imagination.

Fertility of imagination and abundance of guesses at truth are among the first requisites of discovery; but the erroneous guesses must almost of necessity be many times as numerous as those which prove well founded.

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.

Fools act on imagination without knowledge. Pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

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