Picture Perfect

A pigment of your imagination - Archie Bunker

Imagination is the eye of the soul. - Joseph Joubert

You have to hold onto your fantasy. - Betsey Johnson

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

Imagination is more important than knowledge. - Albert Einstein

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

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

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

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

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

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. - Thomas Edison

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

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

I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life. - Geoffrey Rush

Man either goes forward in imagination or remains imprisoned in his senses. - Unknown

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

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache. - Catherine the Great

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

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

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

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

Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment. - Isabel Allende

Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them. - Stephen Covey

I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination. - Cornelia Funke

Such a figure, that imagination cannot form an idea of a fury from hell, to look more frightful. - Charles Johnson

I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villains. - George R.R. Martin

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

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

A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate. - Donald Trump

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

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

The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy. - Lionel Trilling

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

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

When you talk about fantasy, the usual problem is that whilst you've got the world of imagination, there are no controlling forces. - Raymond E. Feist

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

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