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Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything. (Quote by - Henry Miller)

Always have a vivid imagination, for you never know when you might need it (Quote by - J K Rowling)

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block. (Quote by - Paul Gauguin)

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training. (Quote by - Anna Freud)

It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-level art, twisted imagination and a chainsaw. (Quote by - Damien Hirst)

Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence. (Quote by - Norman Podhoretz)

One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination. (Quote by - Sam Levenson)

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind. (Quote by - William Butler Yeats)

The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person. (Quote by - Frank Barron)

Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced. (Quote by - Ned Rorem)

Few things are more deeply rooted in the collective imagination of the English than the village cricket match. (Quote by - Geoffrey Moorhouse)

Fear is only an illusion. It is the illusion that creates the feeling of separateness - the false sense of isolation that exists only in your imagination. (Quote by - Jeraldine Saunders)

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)

Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Sometimes I even ask myself if all this has really happened, if its pictures dwell in truth in my memory, and not merely in my imagination. (Quote by - Jules Verne)

Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica. (Quote by - Stephen Leacock)

I remembered a story of how Bach was approached by a young admirer one day and asked, "But Papa Bach, how do you manage to think of all these new tunes?" "My dear fellow," Bach is said to have answered, according to my version, "I have no need to think of them. I have the greatest difficulty not to step on them when I get out of bed in the morning and start moving around my room." (Quote by - Laurens Van der Post)

I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally. (Quote by - Calvin Trillin)

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice. (Quote by - Arnold Toynbee)

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. (Quote by - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)

To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination. (Quote by - Cynthia Ozick)

You can make sounds and music out of pretty much anything with a little imagination and putting your mind to it! (Quote by - Stan Freberg)

Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless. (Quote by - Jamie Paolinetti)

Imagination is a poor substitute for experience. (Quote by - Havelock Ellis)

This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts. (Quote by - Adam Smith)

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