Can You See It?

Everyone needs a fantasy. - Andy Warhol

Imagination is the eye of the soul. - Joseph Joubert

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

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

The power of imagination makes us infinite. - John Muir

A strong imagination begetteth opportunity. - Michel de Montaigne

A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination. - Arthur Pinero

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

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. - H L Mencken

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

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

An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination. - George Bernard Shaw

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one. - Terry Pratchett

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

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. - Jules de Gaultier

The Possible's slow fuse is lit
By the Imagination. - Emily Dickinson

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

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly. - Morticia Addams

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it. - Lloyd Alexander

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

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw

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

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination. - Christopher Isherwood

Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape. - Terry Pratchett

Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out. - Criss Jami

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

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

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

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable. - Walt Disney

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

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

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

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die. - W H Auden

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need. - Sara Teasdale

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

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