I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.

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

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

Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise gratifies its curiosity and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

Imagination rules the world.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

The lunatic the lover and the poet are of imagination all compact.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.

As great scientists have said and as all children know it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.

If you use your imagination you can look at any actress and see her nude... I hope to make you use your imagination.

I made a real specific decision when I came out of school and most artists were writing about home - if you were a woman you were writing about being a woman - and I decided not to do that write about what you know. That's not what I do. I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination.

If you got a good imagination a lot of confidence and you kind of know what you are saying then you might be able to do it. I know a lot of colorful characters at home that would make great actors.

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions of real interests and materials is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

Live out of your imagination not your history.