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Quotes about Imagination

A daydream is an evasion.
— Thomas Merton
The artist in me cries out for design.
— Robert Frost
I ain't never far away from a pencil and paper or a tape recorder.
— Dolly Parton
You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.
— John Keats
You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.
— John Keats
If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldn't have to paint at all.
— Alberto Giacometti
She asked for clay and started to make models and sculptures. She
— Peter Scazzero
If the opening chapters of Genesis portray God as a creative artist, then it only stands to reason that the people he made in his image will also be artists. Art is an imaginative activity, and in the act of creating, we reflect the mind of our Maker.
— Philip Graham Ryken
Rather than giving in to meaninglessness and despair, Christian artists know that there is a way out. Thus they create images of grace, awakening a desire for the new heavens and the new earth by anticipating the possibilities of redemption in Christ.
— Philip Graham Ryken
If I had a time machine, I'd visit Marilyn Monroe in her prime or drop in on Galileo as he turned his telescope to the heavens.
— Stephen Hawking
Art is often defined as a famous masterpiece in a gallery, and we are meant to visit the work and view it to appreciate it. But that is not all there is.
— Ryuichi Sakamoto
I never try to give a message in my books. It's about living with characters long enough to hear their voices and let them tell me the story. Sometimes I would love to have a happy ending, and it doesn't happen because the character or the story leads me in another direction.
— Isabel Allende