Imagination

"The man who has no imagination has no wings." ~ Muhammad Ali
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. ~ Lauren Bacall

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.  ~ Michelangelo

So you see, imagination needs moodling, long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering. ~ Brenda Ueland

Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination. ~ Oscar Wilde

Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world. ~ Walt Disney

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. ~ Albert Einstein

You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus. ~ Mark Twain

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is. ~ Francis Bacon

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model. Vincent Van Gogh

It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin

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

"There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire; you will what you imagine; and at last you create what you will. ~ George Bernard Shaw

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

An idea is salvation by imagination. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright

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

An act of imagination is an act of self-acceptance. ~ Richard Hugo, Triggering Town

Imagination is the true magic carpet. ~ Norman Vincent Peale

Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that. ~ R.D. Laing, Politics of Experience

Imagination is to love what gas is to a balloon - that which raises it from earth. ~ L.E. Landon

I learned... that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic, striving, but it comes to us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness. ~ Brenda Ueland