Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.

Dreaming is an act of pure imagination attesting in all men a creative power which if it were available in waking would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.

There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.

To me it's far more efficient to mobilize the imagination. It's far more efficient to hear a creaking step for example than to see the face of a monster which usually looks ridiculous and where you know that the blood is ketchup.

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative Imagination Individuality and Independence.

Musicals are by nature theatrical meaning poetic meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief by which I mean there's no fourth wall.

Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.

This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.

A man at work making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.

For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act or fail to act not because of will as is so commonly believed but because of imagination.

It is all very well to copy what one sees but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.

When the imagination and will power are in conflict are antagonistic it is always the imagination which wins without any exception.

It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection which makes us believe and it is not true that as children we were imaginative?

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is in the end the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

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.

The moment a person forms a theory his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise gratifies its curiosity and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

I like nonsense it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.