John Muir Quotes

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.

What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what's real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime.

Mere imagination would indeed be mere trifling; only no imagination is mere .

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

The imagination is the power that enables us to perceive the normal in the abnormal, the opposite of chaos in chaos.

Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuits of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others.

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

My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.

I believe that the imagination is the passport we create to take us into the real world. I believe the imagination is another phrase for what is most uniquely us.

Imagination is a powerful force underlying all knowing

Imagination comes in after we have experience.

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

Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness.

Thought maps existence; fantasy colors it.

Before he has seen the whole, how unusually perceptive and imaginative the person must be to evolve the entire sequence by meditating on its single, pair or triplet of essential images.

I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be.

Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there.

Imagination is the will of things. . . .

The facts, even the real ones, must be imagined before they can be stated.

To visualize is to see what is not there, what is not real - a dream. To visualize is, in fact, to make visual lies. Visual lies, however, have a way of coming true.

Imagination is a powerful agent for creating, as it were, a second nature out of the material supplied to it by actual nature.

The gift of imagination is by no means an exclusive property of the artist; it is a gift we all share; to some degree or other all of us, all of you, are endowed with the powers of fantasy.

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

"Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will," she says. The sky is like a monochromatic contemporary painting, drawing me in with its illusion of depth, pulling me up. "Yeah, that's true," I say. But then after I think about it for a second, I add, "But then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all."

The picture is in your head, in your imagination, everything.