Best Imagination Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“I always imagined I could be what I wanted to be.”

“The characters in a novel are made up, figments of the writer's imagination. I'm sure this won't come as a surprise to anyone, and it's not surprising to me either, but knowing this, feeling this, definitely made writing my second book harder.”

“Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.”

“They are imaginary characters. But perhaps not solely the products of my imagination, since there are some aspects of the characters that relate to my own experience of a wide variety of people.”

“Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.”

“Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too.”

“I don't profess to be Shonda Rhimes by any stretch of the imagination, or Dick Wolf. They're icons. I'm a filmmaker.”

“I like endings that let your imagination do a lot of the work.”

“An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.”

“I can't satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as an art form as much as it used to be.”

“God has given us an imagination, and our imagination is really the principle tool from which all creativity and artistry comes from.”

“A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.”

“Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.”

“Radio listeners often have a very fertile imagination when it comes to body shape.”

“I did spend a lot of time as a child very confused about whether I had a devil in me, or whether I was in a state of grace. I mean, these ideas are so potent to anybody with half an imagination.”

“Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.”

“The violent quarrel between the abstractionists and the surrealists seems to me quite unnecessary. All good art has contained both abstract and surrealist elements, just as it has contained both classical and romantic elements - order and surprise, intellect and imagination, conscious and unconscious.”

“I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from.”

“You really have to be in touch with your soul and spirit and your imagination - it keeps you in shape, and it makes you like yourself a bit more.”

“To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.”

“I never in my wildest imagination dreamed that I would somehow become a sports commentator.”

“Reality is the richest thing there is, the most important thing there is. Our imagination allows us to live an artificial life that is wonderful, extremely rich, but I don't believe any artist would dare to say that artifice is better than real life.”

“I have always felt that the truth is prophetic, and that if you describe precisely what you see and give it life with your imagination, then what you write ought to have lasting value, no matter what the mood of your prose.”

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

“Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more strength, as I was no longer taken to school by the nurse, but instead had myself to protect my brother, two years my junior.”

“We know their names: Hippolyta, Antiope, Thessalia. But they were long thought to be just travelers' tales or products of the Greek storytelling imagination. A lot of scholars still argue that. But archaeology has now proven without a doubt that there really were women fitting the description that the Greeks gave us of Amazons and warrior women.”

“I'm focused on the work. And now I've done 'Morris' and 'Mr. Robot,' my appetite is whet to go deeper. It's fun, and it's challenging, and it stretches me. I'm not saying I'm done with comedy by any stretch of the imagination. I'm saying, yeah, let's see how deep the rabbit hole goes.”

“Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world.”

“Well, the fact is that one imagination is critically important, and if you have had your imagination stimulated by what is basically a variety of subjects, you are much more amenable to accepting, to understanding and interacting with the realities of the world.”

“I think, for a long time, people thought I was a figment of Phil Spector's imagination because they knew The Crystals, they knew The Ronettes, they knew Bob B. Sox and the Blue Jeans, but had never had met Darlene Love.”

“With its imagination and large sales, Apple has become the world's most valuable IT company. However people are starting to have doubts regarding Apple's silence on heavy metal pollution problems.”

“When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.”

“Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.”

“From fiction, you do not get to learn much because it is only imagination. Whereas, from non-fiction, people can understand and learn from the realities it covers.”

“Any acting is a stretch of the imagination. That's your job. Acting is truth in imaginary circumstances. Acting with green screen or a motion capture stage, you're striving for absolute truth in absolutely imaginary circumstances.”

“For a food lover with a big imagination, there's nothing worse than eating the exact same meal several days in a row.”

“There are no rules. And there are no boundaries in terms of where your imagination can take you. That is so necessary for music.”

“Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.”

“The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece.”

“As a viewer, I really want to watch author-backed stories, and there is something amazing about thrillers, the way it captivates your imagination.”

“Being on the left is supposed to be about unbounded optimism, a belief that what is deemed politically impossible by the 'sensible grownups' of politics can be realised, with sufficient imagination and determination.”

“Man lives by imagination.”

“A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.”

“Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I've fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse.”

“I am - you know, I'm getting to do everything I've ever wanted to do, anything my imagination can think up. I'm getting to play with some of my favorite musicians in the world, ranging from Russell Allen to Billy Sheehan to Paul Gilbert to Steve Morse.”

“I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.”

“It's definitely true that there are a lot of the devices we used on 'Star Trek,' that came out the imagination of the writers, and the creators that are actually in the world today.”

“We can live with lots of things, but we can't live without imagination, we can't live without hope.”

“It's the idea that anticipation is as scary as anything in a movie could be. People's imagination is the most effective tool in creating terror or dread.”

“Nothing speaks louder than an evocative photograph that stirs the imagination, tugs at the heart strings and engages the mind.”

“I think there's this idea that the depth of an actor's performance is built on tough times or horrible events or isolation, but I never found that. I figured that my imagination coupled with the story can get me anywhere.”

“What we acknowledged as a nation during the one-and-a-half year trial of George Zimmerman is that the white majority's public imagination of black people was based on their fear of us, not the reality of who we are.”

“I think it's fun to play with worlds that you can add a lot of your own imagination to. With 'True Blood,' you're not limited by anything, there are just leaps and bounds of the imagination you can take with these characters.”

“My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me.”

“Possessing a healthy imagination is a necessary ingredient for creativity.”

“All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.”

“I get ideas from my own personal experiences, from my imagination, and from my research and from old stories.”

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

“I really used my own imagination a lot and made a number of suggestions during my tenure on 'Star Trek.'”

“Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.”

“When I play 'Grand Theft Auto,' I'm such a nerdy little law abider because I've always had this active imagination in which I sympathize and empathize with things.”

“Make sure you visualize what you really want, not what someone else wants for you.”

“Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.”

“My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.”

“I wanted to be her; I wanted to write her. Red Sonja became anchored in my imagination like a mountain.”

“We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can.”

“Education must be aimed at creating a wider imagination in the child, not at suppressing. The child's mind must be set free.”

“So often, science fiction helps to get young people interested in science. That's why I don't mind talking about science fiction. It has a real role to play: to seize the imagination.”

“The cinema is there to heighten the imagination; I have always tried to make sure it does so.”

“I suspect that even most conservatives would prefer to live in the kind of world conjured up in the liberals' imagination rather than in the kind of world we are in fact stuck with.”

“With any kind of sci-fi, the imagination continues, and the world exists, and you create that in your own mind, and it lives in you.”

“The new age of terrorism isn't on the battlefield: it's in your own backyard. Whether it's at a concert in France or a restaurant in the United States, terrorism doesn't have to happen in a military installation by any stretch of the imagination.”

“People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.”

“I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can.”

“The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.”

“I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me.”

“In writing my historical novels, I have to rely upon my imagination to a great extent. I think of it as 'filling in the blanks.' Medieval chroniclers could be callously indifferent to the needs of future novelists. But I think there is a great difference between filling in the blanks and distorting known facts.”

“It is quite amazing how hard the subconscious works when it is made to understand that this life is not a rehearsal, there is no safety net and no assurance of any final closure. It is also quite appalling to realize how catatonic the imagination can become when we hedge our bets, opt for the safer direction at every fork in the path.”

“Remember that your imagination is yours and yours alone. You have the inborn capacity to use it in any way that you choose. No one else is responsible for your imagination. Anything placed in your imagination and held there ultimately becomes your reality.”

“Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.”

“Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.”

“There's the tradition of the 19th-century ballets, and the 20th century has had a difficult time with that tradition. And it's had a difficult time with many components of the Romantic imagination because of modernism.”

“I think my imagination about jobs was pretty limited. There were so few jobs that I actually saw people who looked like me in, that I imagined myself in, that I think I just stopped imagining.”

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

“'The Lord of the Rings,' published in the mid-1950s, was intended as a prehistory to our own world. It was perceived by Tolkien to be a small but significant episode in a vast alternate mythology constructed entirely out of his own imagination.”

“You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination.”

“I think when you're writing films that just come fresh out of your own imagination - I think probably anyone who's done that, there are certain themes or styles.”

“I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack.”

“My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form, whether visual, intellectual or musical.”

“I learnt so much wit, really, from the Globe audiences. If you can make a circle, even in a proscenium theater, if you can get a circular energy going, so that all these people are involved with it and present, then there is something curious that happens with the imagination.”

“I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.”

“The glamour of air travel - its aspirational meaning in the public imagination - disappeared before its luxury did, dissipating as flying gradually became commonplace.”

“The history of Guitar Hero is pretty spectacular. Really, I don't know of another franchise that has captured the imagination of the world so quickly and so powerfully and so positively in such a short period of time.”

“I have a very strong imagination and have since I was a little kid. That is where a lot of my world comes from. It's like I'm off somewhere else. And I can have a problem in life because of that, because I'm always off in some other world thinking about something else. It's constant.”

“Imagination is the eye of the soul.”

“The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.”

“A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper. But a lot of it is imagination. It's not based on real people.”

“Living as we do in an over-stimulative world where kids are brought up on an all-you-can-eat buffet of technological gadgets, screens and electronic games, it's really important they have a break from that and tap into their imagination.”

“There are no shortcuts in life - only those we imagine.”

“The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that as scaffolding, and then letting imagination build the structure that fills in those things we can never find out for sure.”