Picture Perfect

Everyone needs a fantasy. - Andy Warhol

You have to hold onto your fantasy. - Betsey Johnson

Imagination is intelligence having fun. - George Scialabra

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. - Douglas Adams

Where there is no imagination there is no horror. - Arthur Conan Doyle

My single-minded aim is to give existence to fantasy. - Claes Oldenburg

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. - Ludwig Borne

The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination. - George Bernard Shaw

The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. - Henry Ward Beecher

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. - Miguel de Unamuno

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

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates. - Oscar Wilde

Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions. - Albert Einstein

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

I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy. - Marilyn Monroe

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. - Oscar Wilde

A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last. - Helen Rowland

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. - John Dewey

Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life. - Adele Brookman

Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in. - Truman Capote

The fantasy of every Australian man is to have two women - one cleaning and the other dusting. - Maurenn Murphy

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it. - Ursula K. Le Guin

Our fears are more numerous than our dangers, and we suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca

The illusion that the times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages. - Horace Greeley

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live. - Mark Twain

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet. - Woody Allen

The imagination exercises a powerful influence over every act of sense, thought, reason, over every idea. - Latin Proverb

What your mind sees when you close your eyes marks the entrance to an endless universe: your imagination. - Stephen Helmes

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. - Simone Weil

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything. - Plato

A dreamer and a thinker understood the value of imagination. He called his imagination a "holy curiosity." - Albert Einstein

I'm always astonished by a forest. It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. - Gunter Grass

An expert problem solver must be endowed with two incompatible qualities: a restless imagination and a patient pertinacity. - Howard Eves

Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. - Gloria Steinem

Every act of perception is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination. - Gerard M. Edelman

One supreme fact which I have discovered is that it is not willpower but imagination that creates. Imagination creates reality. - Richard Wagner

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. - Samuel Johnson

My imagination persisted in sticking horrors into the dark- so I stuck my imagination into the dark instead, and let it look out at me. - F Scott Fitzgerald

Fantasy has a dark side to it. It also has a light hemisphere - the power of the human imagination to keep going, to imagine a better tomorrow. - Tim O'Brien