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Most Famous Imagination Quotes of All Time!

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Some stories are true that never happened.

Quotes by Elie Wiesel

Few cities have been more definitely impressed upon the imagination of the world than San Francisco, this gray-hilled city on the peninsula by the hospitable bay, where Saint Francis protects the ships as he protected the birds of Assisi.

Quotes by Edwin Markham

People seem to have trouble with the imagination. They can't believe that you can just pull things out of your brain like that.

Quotes by Edward P. Jones

For novelists, the imagination is everything. The trick is to guide one's imagination using research. I love using old maps. When I wrote my novels on London and New York, I found wonderful historical atlases. Paris has the most lavish...

Quotes by Edward Rutherfurd

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

Quotes by Edward Hopper

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.

Quotes by Edward Abbey

Companies like Google and Facebook may offer jobs allowing or requiring imagination and creativity, but the whole of Silicon Valley accounts for only 3 percent of national income and a smaller percentage of national employment.

Quotes by Edmund Phelps

The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.

Quotes by Edmund Wilson

The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.

Quotes by Edmund Wilson

It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.

Quotes by Edouard Manet

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

Quotes by Eduard Hanslick

Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.

Quotes by Eduard Hanslick

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

Quotes by Edith Wharton

There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.

Quotes by Edith Wharton

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

Quotes by Edmund Burke

It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.

Quotes by Edgar Degas

Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.

Quotes by Edgar Rice Burroughs

I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination.

Quotes by Edi Gathegi

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Edgar Allan Poe

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

Edgar Allan Poe

Frequently Asked Questions

What roles does imagination play across these quotes?
It shows up as something actors try to reconnect with from childhood, as a wellspring for creative work, as a limitation among economists trying to keep up with capitalism, and as the spark that pulls artists into the studio. If you enjoy quotes about creativity and possibility, our Dream quotes are a good match.
Is there a quote about reconnecting with childhood imagination?
Yes — it says actors "always want to reach back to being a child and having the spontaneity and the imagination of a child."
Does one quote describe drawing inspiration from a wild imagination?
Yes. It says inspiration comes from "love, heartache, mistakes, hopes, regrets, successes and faith," adding that "it helps to have a wild imagination." This mix of imagination and emotion connects well with our Hope quotes.
Is there a quote about economists and imagination?
Yes — it suggests that "the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness." For more on how imagination shapes what's ahead, see our Future quotes.
Does one quote talk about imagination pulling someone into the studio?
Yes — it says influences need to "capture your imagination and make you want to go into the studio." Creative work often happens in solitude — see our Alone quotes for more on that side of the process.

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