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Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.
-Anon.
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When you stop having dreams and ideals -- well, you might as well stop altogether.
-Marian Anderson
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Act as if you have already achieved your goal and it is yours.
-Dr. Robert Anthony
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Your imagination, my dear fellow, is worth more than you imagine.
-Louis Aragon
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Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-Lauren Bacall
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We think, sometimes, there's not a dragon left. Not one brave knight, not a single princess gliding through secret forests, enchanting deer and butterflies with her smile.What a pleasure to be wrong. Princesses, knights, enchantments and dragons, mystery and adventure ...not only are they here-and-now, they're all that ever lived on earth!Our century, they've changed clothes, of course. Dragons wear government-costumes, today, and failure-suits and disaster-outfits. Society's demons screech, whirl down on us should we lift our eyes from the ground, dare we turn right at corners we've been told to turn left. So crafty have appearances become that princesses and knights can be hidden from each other, can be hidden from themselves.
-Richard Bach
The Bridge Across Forever, preface, 1984
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To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is. He said, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.
-Richard Bach
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Man is an imagining being.
-Gaston Bachelard
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Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people
-Francis Bacon
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Imagination is the air of mind.
-Philip James Bailey
Festus (sc. Another and a Better World)
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The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture, a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder brewed from the richness of individual lives.
-Mary Catherine Bateson
With a Daughter's Eye, 1984
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The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.
-Madame Belazy
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Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance.
-E. T. Bell
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The human imagination...has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
-John Berger
The Soul and the Operator, in Expressen (Stockholm), March 19, 1990
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If you close your eyes, you could just as well imagine me to be vintage Ali MacGraw, circa 1968.
-Sandra Bernhard
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The way we imagine ourselves to appear to another person is an essential element in our conception of ourselves. In other words, I am not what I think I am, and I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am.
-Robert Bierstedt
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To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of art? Why is the Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book? Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and but immediately to the understanding or reason?
-William Blake
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What is now proved was only once imagined.
-William Blake
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To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.
First published by Rossetti in Gilchrist's Life of William Blake (1863), it was composed between 1800 - 1803 http://www.artofeurope.com/blake/bla3.htm
-William Blake
Auguries of Innocence
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The human race is governed by its imagination.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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Imagination rules the world.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.
-Dorothea Brande
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To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery --even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness --is to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself. Imagination alone offers me some intimation of what can be.
-Andre Breton
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When I was a kid, I used to imagine animals running under my bed. I told my dad, and he solved the problem quickly. He cut the legs off the bed.
-Lou Brock
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Books about Imagination
