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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on imagination

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination do not become the slave of your model.
Vincent Van Gogh on imagination

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
John Keats on imagination

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
Marquis de Sade on imagination

The human race is governed by its imagination.
Napoleon Bonaparte on imagination

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
William Blake on imagination

A lady's imagination is very rapid it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
Jane Austen on imagination

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 on imagination

Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
Blaise Pascal on imagination

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
Horace Walpole on imagination

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Samuel Johnson on imagination

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
Carl Jung on imagination

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
Thomas Carlyle on imagination

Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
Ambrose Bierce on imagination

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
e. e. cummings on imagination

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
Abdul Kalam on imagination

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.
J. K. Rowling on imagination

Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.
Orison Swett Marden on imagination

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

For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.
Jean Dubuffet on imagination