Fantasy & Imagination Quotes

Man lives by imagination.

To me, stretching the capabilities of my imagination is a crucial aspect of writing fiction; you could think of it as a mental form of athleticism.

Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper!

Imagination comes of not having things.

I loved the world of imagination.

There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.

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

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

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

I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

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

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.

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

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.

Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind.

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

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

Imagination decides everything.

Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

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

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.

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

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

Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

Imagination creates some big monsters.

The imagination is man's power over nature.

My imagination is my polestar; I steer by that.

Given free rein, our imagination can get infinite.

Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective.

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.

Man lives by imagination.

My imagination is closer to a child's imagination than to a grown-up's.

As children, our imaginations are vibrant, and our hearts are open. We believe that the bad guy always loses and that the tooth fairy sneaks into our rooms at night to put money under our pillow. Everything amazes us, and we think anything is possible. We continuously experience life with a sense of newness and unbridled curiosity.

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

The problem with people who are afraid of imagination, of fantasy, is that their world becomes so narrow that I don't see how they can imagine beyond what their senses can verify. We know from science that there are entire worlds that our senses can't verify.

Imagination rules the world.

I love fantasy; I love imagination - that's the inner child in me.

Science fiction and fantasy is a kind of literature that embodies the highest aspirations of the human race.

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

Imagination creates reality.

Ideas seem to come from everywhere - my life, everything I see, hear, and read, and most of all, from my imagination. I have a lot of imagination.

I mean, the most important thing to me is imagination.

My imagination completely controls me, and forever feeds the fire that burns with dark red light in my heart by bringing me the best dreams. I've always had a wild imagination, a big heart and a tortured soul so I feel that dark fantasy, love and horror are in my blood.

Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.

Imagination is a beast that has to be put in a cage.

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.

Imagination needs to be fed.

Imagination makes us aware of limitless possibilities. How many of us haven't pondered the concept of infinity or imagined the possibility of time travel? In one of her poems, Emily Bronte likens imagination to a constant companion, but I prefer to think of it as a built-in entertainment system.

Imagination is the air of mind.