William Morris Hunt Quotes

Imagination is a powerful force underlying all knowing

Our ideas are the offspring of our senses; we are not more able to create the form of a being we have not seen, without retrospect to one we know, than we are able to create a new sense. He whose fancy has conceived an idea of the most beautiful form must have composed it from actual existence.

Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness.

With imagination, you can put something where nothing was.

Imagination is a form of seeing

What you can imagine depends on what you know.

Memory feeds imagination.

If you can imagine a thing, conjure it up in space then you can make it... The universe is real but you can't see it. You have to imagine it. Then you can be realistic about reproducing it.

Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.

What I can't create I don't understand

Much of what we see in the universe ... starts out as imaginary. Often you must imagine something before you can come to terms with it.

People seem to have trouble with the imagination. They can't believe that you can just pull things out of your brain like that.

Imagination is a funny thing - we sometimes need to see something before we can truly picture it.

Imagination is the will of things. . . .

Imagination is the power of the mind over the possibilities of things.

Imagination is merely the exploitation of our memory.

Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.

The region belonging to the pure intellect is straitened: the imagination labours to extend its territories, to give it room. She sweeps across the boarders, searching out new lands into which she may guide her plodding brother. The imagination is the light which redeems from the darkness for the eyes of the understanding. Novalis says, 'The imagination is the stuff of the intellect' -affords, that is, the material upon which the intellect works.

Ideas are floating like fish. Desire for an idea is like a bait on a hook. If you desire an idea, it pulls and it makes a kind of a bait. Ideas will come swimming up. And you don't know them until they enter the conscious mind. And then bingo! There it is! You know it instantly. And then more come in. If you go fishing for ideas, a lot of ideas will just pop in. And one of them will make you fall in love.

The imagination is not the consolation people pretend. It can even be regarded as the admission of some sort of failure.

We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing.

To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet's mind, or the painter's, or the scientist's, but of the mind of man.

The writer has three sources: imagination, observation, and experience

There is something more important than logic: imagination

The imagination is too often regarded merely as an indefinite, untraceable, indescribable something that does nothing but create fiction.