1. Everything you can imagine is real. Pablo Picasso 
2. Logic with get you from A to Z. Imagination will get you everywhere. Albert Einstein
3. Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. Oscar Wilde
4. You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write. Saul Bellow
5. Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one. Terri Pratchett
6. You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. Mark Twain
7. I am certain about nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affection and the truth of the Imagination. John Keats
8. Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere. Carl Sagan
9. Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning. Gloria Steinem
10. Our imagination flies….we are its shadow on the earth. Vladimir Nabokov
11. Children see magic because they look for it. Christopher Moore
12. 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
13. Some might think that the creativity, imagination, and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity. Vladimir Nabokov
14. Writing is a job, a talent, but it’s also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon. Anne Patchett
15. The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity… and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. William Blake
16. Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try! Dr. Seuss
17. The Possible’s slow fuse is lit by the Imagination. Emily Dickinson
18. Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. Simone Weil
19. Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. George Smith Patton
20. Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. Lewis Carroll
21. Sometimes imagination pounces; mostly it sleeps in the corner, purring. Terri Guillimets
22. I admit to having an imagination feverish enough to melt good judgment. Dean R. Koontz
23. In the realist, you have the sorry sight of the five senses deprived of their imagination. Robert Brault
24. Creative people are curious, flexible, persistent, and independent with a tremendous spirit of adventure and a love of play. Henri Matisse
25. It’s not what you look at that matters. It’s what you see. Henri David Thoreau
26. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause and stand wrapped in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. Albert Einstein
27. I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant. Ursula K. Le Guin
28. Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. Albert Szent – Gyorgi
29. I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see. Duane Michals
30. It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block. Paul Gaugain
31. You will become as small as your controlling desire; or as great as your dominant aspiration. James Allen
32. Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievement. Napoleon Hill
33. Image creates desire. You will what you imagine. J.G. Gallimore
34. The imagination is the spur of delights….all depends on it. It is the mainstream of everything; now, is it not by the means of imagination that one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise? Marquis de Sade
35. We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire. George Elliot
36. Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly. Lauren Bacall
37. Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything. Henry Miller
38. The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope. Henry Ward Beecher
39. Indulge your imagination in every possible flight. Jane Austen
40. Imagination is a force of nature. Is that not enough to make a person full of ecstacy? Imagination, imagination, imagination. It converts to actual. It sustains, it alters, it redeems. Saul Bellow
41. If everyone is thinking alike, then someone isn’t thinking. George S. Patton
42. Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young. W. Somerset Maugham
43. Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity. L. Frank Baum
44. Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they’ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands maybe. Neil Gaiman
45. If you are a dreamer come in
If you are a dreamer a wisher a liar
A hoper a pray-er a magic-bean-buyer
If you’re a pretender come sit by my fire
For we have some flax golden tales to spin
Come in!
Come in! Shel Silverstein
Now it’s your turn. If you have personal thoughts or a quote about imagination, we would love to read it.
Fabulous quotes! Thank you!
Carolyn….with pleasure. Fran
Fantastic set, Fran. I love your quote posts! This is a great read! Thank you.
Vidya….am glad you enjoyed. Quotes have the potential to inspire and provoke. I hope you’re feeling better dear Vidya. sending you blessings for health and a big hug…Fran
Thank you, Fran. Yes, I am much better. I’ve saved this post on my desktop. You’re absolutely right about quotes being sweet inspiration! Hug you back!
What a fantastic list Fran. I’m going to be reading this a few times, there’s so much to contemplate here.
I’m a huge fan of Wm Blake and it’s wonderful to see him in a list of quotes on imagination. He’s one of my heroes, thank you for including him.
Elle
xoxo
Elle,
i don’t know a lot about william blake but thanks to your feelings about him, i’m going to read about him. Thanks. am thrilled that you enjoyed the list. xxoo-Fran
Wonderful! Thanks for sharing these excellent quotes
Hi Fran,
You start out with a bang: Everything you can imagine is real. Pablo Picasso
No. 11 Children find magic because they look for it.
My very favorite: Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. Lewis Carroll
I don’t think that happens because to often we jump right on our digital gadgets!
It kills imagination before breakfast.
Oh tess….you and i agree on the favorite one….what a way to start the day. i’m actually going to start doing it before my morning reading. Ahhh….no digital gadgets for me first thing in the morning. i really try to stay away from it. I need to start my day with a ‘soulful presence’. if i dive into ‘work’ too early, my day doesn’t run as smoothly. i hope you’re having a great time in the ‘cooler part’ of the states. xxoo-Fran
Boy, did I need this! I have to agree with Tess – the first one has the most impact on me (Everything you can imagine is real.).
I’m currently reading The Intention Experiment which basically gives scientific proof behind the idea that energy/matter around us sits in a state of infinite possibility. What things and events become is based purely on our thoughts and imagination.
Imagine a world where all your dreams come true!
Paige…..I know. Often the simplest with a minimal amount of words hits you in the guts.
Whenever I do ‘quote posts’, I get lost in them. There are such juicy ones.
xxoo-Fran
Hi Fran,
Love all the quotes, but No. 45 is one I remember reading to my students. Happy memories!
Wow — what an awesome collection of quotes! Number 16 made me laugh — “Oh, The Thinks You Can Think” is currently one of my two year old’s favourite books. I always thought that particular line had a great message behind it… 🙂
Nathalie….I’m glad that you liked them. Dr. Seuss has still got to be one of the great authors for children. Who doesn’t love him? 🙂 Fran
I absolutely love these quotes!
Hey Kevin….great to see you on Awake Create. Am glad you ‘love em’. I’m keeping the list on my desk so I can read a few them every time I sit down at the computer. They are inspirational. 🙂 Fran
really nice quotes I loved it ….
I also want to share a inspirational quote
“fear can’t be without hope nor hope without fear”
I found it from “http://tearz.me/life-quotes-2/motivational-quotes-2/”
visit the site it’s really nice
Natasha….I have never heard that quote. I am digesting it as I write this. I will write down and keep near my desk. Thanks for sharing the site. great to see you here. Fran
What a great list–I savored every quote.
galen…..’savoring’ is one of my favorite words. I smiled when I saw it. Am so glad you enjoyed the quotes. Fran
Love these quotes! I’m copying a few down to remember for another time.
Thanks for the inspiration as usual!!