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“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
― Albert Einstein

“Imagination is the golden-eyed monster that never sleeps. It must be fed; it cannot be ignored.”
― Patricia A. McKillip

“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.”
― Albert Einstein

“Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.”
― John Lennon

“Because fear kills everything," Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

“The canvas isn’t empty. It’s full of whatever you imagine it to be full of. My art is so conceptual that not only do I not tell, but I don’t even show. All I do is sign the canvas and try to sell it.”
― Jarod Kintz, At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
― Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

“Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.”
― Victor Hugo

“Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.”
― Bill Hicks

“Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.”
― Jonathan Swift

“Because," explained Mary Rommely simply, "the child must have a valuable thing which is called imagination. The child must have a secret world in which live things that never were. It is necessary that she believe. She must start out by believing in things not of this world. Then when the world becomes too ugly for living in, the child can reach back and live in her imagination. I, myself, even in this day and at my age, have great need of recalling the miraculous lives of the Saints and the great miracles that have come to pass on earth. Only by having these things in my mind can I live beyond what I have to live for.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything godlike about God, it is that. He dared to imagine everything”
― Henry Miller, Sexus

“Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.”
― Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive

“People don't read any more. It's a sad state of affairs. Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination. When you watch films it's someone else's vision, isn't it?"

[Interview in The Independent, 15 October 2005]”
― Lemmy Kilmister

“Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.”
― Philip José Farmer

“Live out of your imagination, not your history.”
― Stephen Covey

“Adventure is not outside man; it is within.”
― George Eliot

“When we are no longer children we are already dead”
― Constantin Brancusi

“My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

“your brain is wider than the sky”
― Emily Dickinson

“The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.”
― Terence McKenna

“When you visualized a man or a woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity . . . that was a quality God's image carried with it . . . when you saw the lines at the corners of the eyes, the shape of the mouth, how the hair grew, it was impossible to hate. Hate was just a failure of imagination.”
― Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory

“Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.”
― George Scialabba

“I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.”
― Albert Einstein, On Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms

“What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“What year is it in your imagination?”
― Lynda Barry, What It Is