Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
Voltaire

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Carl Sagan

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
Jane Austen

Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.
James Dean

The power of imagination makes us infinite.
John Muir

An idea is salvation by imagination.
Frank Lloyd Wright

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
William Blake

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
William Blake

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Thomas A. Edison

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
Marcus Aurelius

We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.
Thomas Merton

Imagination decides everything.
Blaise Pascal

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.
Blaise Pascal

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
Blaise Pascal

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
John Keats

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.
John Keats

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
John Keats

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
Noam Chomsky

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
Lauren Bacall