The world is but canvas to our imaginations.
-Henry David Thoreau

The world is the human imagination pushed out.
-Neville Goddard

The world of reality has its limits,
the world of the imagination is boundless.
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

-John Muir

The Possible's slow fuse is lit
By the Imagination.
-Emily Dickinson

If you want most out of life,
you must demand more of your imagination.
-Dennis P. Kimbro

In response to my question,
"What do I really want?"
imagination leaps as an obedient servant
to picture for me the harmony
which I may bring into existence.
-John Seaman Garns

Creative imagination is that function of mind
that forms or pictures an idea with such clarity and feeling
that the idea comes alive in consciousness.
-Carelton Whitehead

There is only one admirable form of the imagination:
the imagination that is so intense
that it creates a new reality,
that it makes things happen.
-Sean O'Faolain

The great successful men of the world
have used their imagination...
they think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details,
filling in here, adding a little there,
altering this a bit and that a bit,
but steadily building - steadily building.
-Robert Collier

Imagining something
is better than remembering something.
-John Irving

Begin to live out of the glory of your imagination,
not your memory.
-Robin Sharma

Live out of your imagination,
not your history.
-Stephen Covey

Always have a vivid imagination,
for you never know when you might need it.
-J. K. Rowling

As a rule, indeed, grown-up people are fairly correct on matters of fact;
it is in the higher gift of imagination that they are so sadly to seek.
-Kenneth Grahame

Imagination grows by exercise,
and contrary to popular belief,
is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
-W. Somerset Maugham

Perhaps imagination
is only intelligence having fun.
-George Scialabba

There is no beginning or end to the imagination
but it delights in its own seasons
reversing the usual order at will.
-William Carlos Williams

There is no thing
that with the twist of the imagination
cannot be something else.
-William Carlos Williams

What a glorious gift is imagination,
and what satisfaction it affords!
-Thomas Mann

Imagination is the free flow of the mind.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan

The quality of the imagination

is to flow and not to freeze.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Imagination needs to be fed.
-Barbara Januszkiewicz

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

Imagination is the mightiest despot.
-Berthold Auerbach

Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death
but to inspire yourself to life.
-Adele Brookman

One who has imagination without learning
has wings without feet.
-Joseph Joubert

Imagination is a poor matter
when it has to part company with understanding.
-Thomas Carlyle

The imagination is never wrong
since it does not have to confront an image
with an objective reality.
-Gaston Bachelard

We sin against the imagination
when we ask an image for its meaning,
requiring that images be translated into concepts.
-James Hillman

Figments of the imagination can linger in the mind
only when they are associated
with an inner experience or memory.
-Chris Griscom

The sound and proper exercise of the imagination
may be made to contribute to all
that is virtuous and estimable in human character.
-John Ambercrombie

The mightiest lever known to the moral world,
imagination.
-William Wordsworth

Keep the imagination sane -
this is one of the truest conditions of communion with heaven.
-Nathaniel Hawthorne

Imagination...
its limits are only those of the mind itself.
-Rod Serling

When one is living in the physical mind,
the only way to escape from it is imagination.
-Aurobindo Ghose

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
-Pierre Jules Theophile Gautier

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

The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real.
When it adheres to the unreal and intensifies what is unreal,
while its first effect may be extraordinary,
that effect is the maximum effect that it will ever have.
-Wallace Stevens

But what is imagination?
Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy;
only the precursor of the reason.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

The abnormal nature of the image
does not mean that it is artificially produced,
for the imagination is the most natural of faculties.
-Gaston Bachelard

Imagination, where is is truly creative,
is a faculty, and not a quality;
it looks before and after,
it gives the form that makes all the parts work together
harmoniously towards a given end,
its seat is in the higher reason,
and it is efficient only as a servant of the will.
-James Russell Lowell

Imagination is a very high sort of seeing,
which does not come by study,
but by the intellect being where and what it sees,
by sharing the path, or circuits of things through forms,
and so making them translucid to others.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Imagination is the air of the mind.
-Philip James Bailey

The imagination, give it the least license,
dives deeper and soars higher than Nature goes.
-Henry David Thoreau

Thought paceth like a hoary sage,
but imagination hath wings as an eagle.
-Martin Farquhar Tupper

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-Lauren Bacall

Imagination is the true magic carpet.
-Norman Vincent Peale

To imagine is everything,
to know is nothing at all.
-Anatole France

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

Science does not know its debt to imagination.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

What is now proved
was only once imagined.
-William Blake

Every great advance is science
has issued from new audacity of imagination.
-John Dewey

If you turn your imagination loose like a hunting dog,
it will often return with a bird in its mouth.
-William Keepers Maxwell, Jr.

The product of the scientific imagination
is a new vision of relations -
like that of artistic imagination.
-Edmund Wilson

Do not confuse fantasy with imagination:
the former consumes itself in daydreaming,
the latter stimulates creativity in the arts and in the sciences.
-Fausto Cercignani

I am enough of an artist
to draw freely on my imagination.
-Albert Einstein

The world needs the unifying power of imagination.
The two things that give it best are poetry and religion.
-R. S. Thomas

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet,
are of imagination all compact.
-William Shakespeare

As the imagination is not a talent of some men
but is the health of every man,
so also is this joy of musical expression.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

The imagination is of so delicate a texture
that even words wound it.
-William Hazlitt

Works of imagination should be written
in very plain language;
the more purely imaginative they are
the more necessary it is to be plain.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Imagination is a form of seeing.
-Philip Pullman

Imagination is the eye of the soul.
-Joseph Joubert

The soul without imagination
is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
-Henry Ward Beecher

Imagination is an almost divine faculty which,
without recourse to any philosophical method,
immediately perceives everything:
the secret and intimate connections between things,
correspondences and analogies.
-Charles Baudelaire

We are what we imagine ourselves to be.
-Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Imagination has always had powers of resurrection
that no science can match.
-Ingrid Bengis

The power of man's imagination
is greater than any poison.
-Edmond Jaloux

Imagination is a force of nature.
Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy?
Imagination, imagination, imagination.
It converts to actual.
It sustains, it alters, it redeems!
-Saul Bellow

Imagination is a great inductor of joy -
it enjoys exercising itself in all kinds of ways
and refreshed and renews us
in the mind and emotions, as well as physically,
by taking us gaily on its wings.
-Michael J. Eastcott

We do not need magic to change the world.
We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already:
we have the power to imagine better.
-J. K. Rowling

I sometimes feel as if I were imagination -
imagination imagining itself imagine.
-William H. Gass

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

I am better able to imagine hell than heaven;
it is my inheritance, I suppose.
-Elinor Wylie

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

My imagination is a monastery
and I am its monk.
-John Keats

Imagination is the bridge
between body and soul.
-Marion Woodman

The imagination is a tree.
It has the integrative virtues of a tree.
It has roots and boughs.
It lives between earth and sky.
It lives in the earth and in the wing.
The imagined tree becomes imperceptibly the cosmological tree,
the tree which epitomizes a universe, which make a universe.
-Gaston Bachelard

My imagination is my polestar;
I steer by that.
-Clive Barker

Imagination is the queen of truth,
and possibly is one of the regions of truth.
She is positively akin to infinity.
-Charles Baudelaire

The imagination is not a State:
it is the Human existence itself.
-William Blake

To the Eyes of the Man of Imagination,
Nature is imagination itself.
-William Blake

Imagination rules the world.
-Napoleon Bonaparte

Imagination opens the gates of the universe.
-William Patten

Your imagination, my dear fellow,
is worth more than you imagine.
-Louis Aragon