There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.
Edith Wharton

Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
Ralph Fiennes

Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination.
Tim Robbins

Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.
Rita Dove

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
Manuel Puig

I'm looking for a way out of here. I can't have it physically, so I'm going to have it intellectually. It was a beautiful thing to ride Seabiscuit in my imagination. And it's just fantastic to be there alongside Louie as he's breaking the NCAA mile record. People at these vigorous moments in their lives - it's my way of living vicariously.
Laura Hillenbrand

Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.
George Henry Lewes

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Charles Kettering

If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
Karl Kraus

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.
Cyril Connolly

Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.
George Henry Lewes

If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
Bela Lugosi

To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
Quintilian

The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South.
James Weldon Johnson

I've done a lot of bad things. Use your imagination.
Katy Perry

The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.
Charles Kettering

Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.
Eartha Kitt

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.
Clara Schumann

Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.
Camille Paglia

They are imaginary characters. But perhaps not solely the products of my imagination, since there are some aspects of the characters that relate to my own experience of a wide variety of people.
Margaret Mahy