Picture Perfect

You have to hold onto your fantasy. - Betsey Johnson

Imagination is intelligence having fun. - George Scialabra

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I've always enjoyed living in a fantasy world, daydreaming. - James Duval

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

Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years. - Sheila Ballantyne

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

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

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

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

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

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

Like the cosmetics industry, the securities business is engaged in selling illusion. - Paul Samuelson

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

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure. - Scott Adams

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

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

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination. - Ernest Hemingway

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

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

The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of the imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases. - J.W.N. Sullivan

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

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination. - Edmund Burke

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is. - Horace Walpole

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

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