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Preschool children are virtuosos of imagination.

Benjamin Spock

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

George Bernard Shaw

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Joseph Joubert

Imagination and invention go hand in hand. Remember how lack of resources was never a problem in childhood games? Shift a few pieces of furniture around the living room, and you have yourself a fort.

Alexandra Adornetto

Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.

Ada Lovelace

Art is about imagination. When you look at a picture from Salvador Dali, that's about imagination. When you look at Picasso, that's about imagination. Doing stuff from your heart.

LL Cool J

Imagination decides everything.

Blaise Pascal

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

W. Somerset Maugham

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

Wallace Stevens

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

George Bernard Shaw

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

Barbara Januszkiewicz

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.

William Plomer

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

Erich Fromm

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

Oscar Wilde

Creativity requires novelty. Imagination is all about counterfactuals and untested possibilities that don't yet exist.

Maria Konnikova

Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.

George Henry Lewes

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.

Wayne Dyer

Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.

Edward de Bono

The imagination is man's power over nature.

Wallace Stevens

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Imagination creates reality.

Richard Wagner

Imagination rules the world.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

Blaise Pascal

Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.

Barbara Januszkiewicz

Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.

H. P. Lovecraft

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.

Rollo May

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

Tom Stoppard

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

William Blake

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

Norman Vincent Peale

Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.

R. D. Laing

Imagination is the air of mind.

Philip James Bailey

I believe that we have the ability to change our lives using our imaginations. Imagination is a muscle - the more you use it, the stronger it gets.

Rodman Philbrick

Imagination needs to be fed.

Barbara Januszkiewicz

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

Eric Hoffer

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

Carl Sagan

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

John Muir

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Joseph Joubert

Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.

Irving Howe

The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.

Robert Collier

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

Napoleon Hill

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

Carl Jung

Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.

Christopher Fry