I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn't that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that's when your creativity is developed, when you're young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to.
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
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.
Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination.
My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.
We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials for imagination are inexhaustible here.
A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.
It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.
The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.
Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.
A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.
What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness second, their imagination, and third, their industry.
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.
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
I can't satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as an art form as much as it used to be.
No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.
He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.
Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and workers who hone their skills and offer their labor.
I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else.
It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?
When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.
The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.
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.
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.