Imagination as a Tool Quotes

An idea is salvation by imagination.

Our imagination it is our greatest ally . . . Imagination is a very, very powerful thing. It literally invents the path before you.

My imagination is my polestar; I steer by that.

I believe art is utterly important. It is one of the things that could save us. We don't have to rely totally on experience if we can do things in our imagination.... It's the only way in which you can live more lives than your own. You can escape your own time, your own sensibility, your own narrowness of vision.

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction...All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland...I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around...Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

Imagination doesn’t just mean making things up. It means thinking things through, solving them, or hoping to do so, and being just distant enough to be able to laugh at things that are normally painful. Head teachers would call this escapism, but they would be entirely wrong. I would call fantasy the most serious, and the most useful, branch of writing there is. And this is why I don’t, and never would, write Real Books.

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

I just have a relationship with my imagination. It's like my friend, almost.

My best investment is my imagination, because it has never failed to bring me my greatest returns!

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.