Picture Perfect

Everyone needs a fantasy. - Andy Warhol

You have to hold onto your fantasy. - Betsey Johnson

An idea is salvation by imagination. - Frank Lloyd Wright

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

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

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

The possible's slow fuse is lit by the imagination. - Emily Dickinson

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

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein

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

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

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

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

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. - Albert Einstein

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

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

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

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. - Daniel J. Boorstin

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

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

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. - Dr. Seuss

There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons. - Fred Saberhagen

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

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

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

It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw. - Damien Hirst

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

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

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

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. - Terry Pratchett

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

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

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

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