Favorite Quotations ~ Imagination

Square watercolor in Daily Celebrations style, playful color washes suggesting a kite and soaring light Imagination is a set of bright wings—lifting problems into possibilities, chiseling stone into song. As Muhammad Ali said: “The man who has no imagination has no wings.”💙🕊️

“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, If You Want to Write

“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

“Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.” ~ Vincent van Gogh

"There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do." ~ Anais Nin

“Microsoft is a company that manages imagination.” ~ Bill Gates

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

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

“Imagination makes you see all sorts of things.” ~ Georgia O'Keeffe

“The mightiest lever known to the world: imagination.” ~ William Wordsworth, Crusades

“The world of imagination is boundless.” ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“There is no imagining without a basis of truth.” ~ Merrill Joan Gerber, Gut Feelings

“Like a person who must struggle to say what he means, the imagination stutters toward the clear articulation of its feeling.” ~ Lewis Hyde, The Gift

"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions." ~ Albert Einstein

"Be sure to imagine right, for we tend to become as we see ourselves." ~ Norman Vincent Peale