Imagination Quotes

Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.
- Norman Podhoretz

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
- Lewis Carroll

These are the gloomy comparisons of a disturbed imagination; the melancholy madness of poetry, without the inspiration.
- Junius

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
- Joseph Joubert

Imagination continually frustrates tradition, that is its function.
- John Pfeiffer

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
- Jessamyn West

When I could not sleep for cold I had fire enough in my brain, And builded with roofs of gold My beautiful castles in Spain!
- James Russell Lowell

Nothing encourages creativity like the chance to fall flat on one's face.
- James D Finley

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
- Jack London

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau