Can You See It?

Everyone needs a fantasy. - Andy Warhol

Imagination is the eye of the soul. - Joseph Joubert

An idea is salvation by imagination. - Frank Lloyd Wright

Worry is simply imagination gone awry. - Peter Alwinson

The power of imagination makes us infinite. - John Muir

Inflation: everyone's illusion of wealth - Unknown

Before imagination can flow, you must let go. - Unknown

A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination. - Arthur Pinero

Live out of your imagination, not your history. - Stephen Covey

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality. - Seneca

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

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

There are certain things you just don't do in fantasy. - J K Rowling

What a strange illusion to suppose that beauty is goodness. - Leo Tolstoy

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion. - Noam Chomsky

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

I'm not a passive person by any stretch of the imagination. - Courteney Cox

The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy. - George R.R. Martin

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

Our separation from each other is an optical illusion of consciousness. - Albert Einstein

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. - Mark Twain

Where beams of imagination play,
The memory's soft figures melt away. - Alexander Pope

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts. - Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. - James Russel Lowell

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

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. - Albert Einstein

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

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

I think Nature's imagination is so much greater than man's, she's never gonna let us relax! - Richard P Feynman

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

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. - Arthur C. Clarke

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

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

Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need. - Tom Robbins

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

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