“Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
IdeasCourage
Imagination Quotes
90 FAMOUS QUOTES · IMAGINATION
Imagination Quotes
Read 90 of the best imagination quotes from Albert Einstein, William Blake, Pablo Picasso, Carl Sagan, Rabindranath Tagore and Kabir, plus quotes on creativity, stories and children's wonder.
“If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of what can be, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible.”
Søren Kierkegaard
PossibilityPassion
“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”
Vincent van Gogh
ArtDreams
“Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.”
Plato
PoetryInspiration
“Painters and poets alike have always had licence to dare anything.”
Horace
ArtFreedom
“Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done.”
Philip Sidney
PoetryNature
“A man of a polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving.”
Joseph Addison
PleasureAppreciation
“In the boundless realm of poetry, the poet is the only creator; as it pleases him, so the world turns.”
Anandavardhana
PoetryCreation
“Where the sun cannot reach, the poet can.”
Hindi Proverb
PoetryShort Quotes
“A man without literature, music and art is a beast without tail and horns.”
Bhartrihari
ArtCulture
“There is no wise maxim, no learning, no art or craft, no device, no action that is not found in drama.”
Bharata Muni (Natya Shastra)
TheatreArt
“The musk is in the deer's own navel, yet it roams the forest searching for it.”
Kabir
Inner SearchWisdom
“Words exist because of meaning; once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words.”
Zhuangzi
MeaningPhilosophy
“I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument, while the song I came to sing remains unsung.”
Rabindranath Tagore
CreativityAction
“Never stop sculpting your own statue.”
Plotinus
Self CreationGrowth
“Nature loves to hide.”
Heraclitus
MysteryNature
“Become what you are.”
Pindar
PotentialShort Quotes
“In our play we reveal what kind of people we are.”
Ovid
PlayCharacter
“Moonlight, in a familiar room, falling so white upon the carpet, is a medium the most suitable for a romance-writer.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
WritingAtmosphere
“Never give up. No one knows what's going to happen next.”
L. Frank Baum
HopePossibility
“A picture is worth a thousand words.”
English Adage
ImagesShort Quotes
“Tell me a fact and I'll learn. Tell me a truth and I'll believe. But tell me a story and it will live in my heart forever.”
Often called a Native American proverb (origin uncertain)
StorytellingMemory
“Every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.”
The Bible (Genesis 6:5)
WarningHuman Nature
“I the Lord will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream.”
The Bible (Numbers 12:6)
VisionsDreams
“And I saw a new heaven and a new earth.”
The Bible (Revelation 21:1)
VisionHope