Few people have the imagination for reality.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
Horace Walpole

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.
Alan Watts

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
Carl Jung

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
Carl Jung

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
Carl Jung

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.
Vincent Van Gogh

Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.
Vincent Van Gogh

Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.
Robert Collier

The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.
Robert Collier

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
Harry S. Truman

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
George Bernard Shaw

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
Immanuel Kant

It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the character that I'm playing.
Jack Nicholson

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
Marcel Proust

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
Josh Billings

The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.
Steven Spielberg

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.
Edward Abbey

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
e. e. cummings