Imagination Quotes

"The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies." "This is a work of fiction, but believe me, none of this is invented." "You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child." "You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born." "The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you." "Everything one invents is true you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry" "To call someone anti-American, indeed to be anti-American, is not just racist, it's a failure of the imagination." "Let's be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading." "The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implication of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of having imagination is to have a sense of life." "In play, a child is always above his average age, above his daily behavior" "We're talking about fictional characters, imaginary people, but the important thing is that it is real for us" "The work of a true social entrepreneur is to think and dream and imagine how the world could be" "I reject your reality and substitute my own" "You can't trust your judgment when your imagination is out of focus." "My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations" "Creativity is seeing what everyone else sees but thinking what no one else has thought." "Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air " "The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power" "I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead I lift my lids and all is born again " "Art is an escape from reality."