Picture Perfect

A pigment of your imagination - Archie Bunker

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

Imagination means nothing without doing. - Charlie Chaplin

The man with no imagination has no wings. - Muhammad Ali

Imagination is more important than knowledge. - Albert Einstein

A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination. - Arthur Pinero

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

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

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

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. - Ludwig Borne

With a treehouse and a little imagination, we can go anywhere. - Unknown

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

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish. - Minna Antrim

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

I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy. - Marilyn Monroe

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

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 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

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

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

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

Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't imagine what it might be. - Joyce Carol Oates

Stretching the capabilities of my imagination is a crucial aspect of writing fiction; you could think of it as a mental form of athleticism. - Julia Glass

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