Imagination Quotes - Page 7

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

Both art and faith are dependent on imagination; both are ventures into the unknown.

The scientist needs an artistically creative imagination.

Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom.

Doubts and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.

When you become the image of your own imagination, it's the most powerful thing you could ever do.

My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So that's how I identify.

For me, its always a failure of the imagination. I have that anxiety that time is passing, that everything is ultimately fleeting and impermanent. I better take advantage of every single moment.

The imagination is the vehicle of sensibility. Transported by the imagination, we attain life, life itself, which is absolute art.

The most erotic zone is the imagination.

It was octarine, the colour of magic. It was alive and glowing and vibrant and it was the undisputed pigment of the imagination, because wherever it appeared it was a sign that mere matter was a servant of the powers of the magical mind. It was enchantment itself. But Rincewind always thought it looked a sort of greenish-purple.

Without question it may be said of Vancouver that her position, geographically, is Imperial to a degree, that her possibilities are enormous, and that with but a feeble stretch of the imagination those possibilities might wisely be deemed certainties.

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit

The imagination is one of the forces of nature.

The point I would make is that the novelist and the historian are seeking the same thing: the truth – not a different truth: the same truth – only they reach it, or try to reach it, by different routes. Whether the event took place in a world now gone to dust, preserved by documents and evaluated by scholarship, or in the imagination, preserved by memory and distilled by the creative process, they both want to tell us how it was: to re-create it, by their separate methods, and make it live again in the world around them.

Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it.

Woman is the sun, an extraordinary creature, one that makes the imagination gallop.

Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.

Clearly, there has been a lack of imagination about how much can go wrong.

How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us, we devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.

I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination.

In all forms of magick, the imagination or image-making faculty is the most important factor

Certainly I've lived my whole life through my imagination. But the world of imagination is there for all of us--a sense of play, of pretending, of wonder. It's there with us as we live.

Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all.

Heaven: The Coney Island of the Christian imagination.