Famous Quotes About imagination

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

An idea is salvation by imagination.

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.

Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you're forced back on your own imagination.

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

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him.

Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.