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Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.
Marquis de Sade on imagination

I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman.
Claire Danes on imagination

The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost its power to inspire the imagination of successive generations of Jews with its annually re-enacted drama of slavery and liberation.
Jonathan Sacks on imagination

I love theatrics and have a huge imagination: Why would I want to sit onstage and sing a bunch of ballads back-to-back?
Christina Aguilera on imagination

I don't think art is propaganda it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.
Keith Haring on imagination

There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.
Edith Wharton on imagination

What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.
Shia LaBeouf on imagination

Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
R. D. Laing on imagination

Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.
Emile M. Cioran on imagination

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.
Austin O'Malley on imagination

I've done a lot of bad things. Use your imagination.
Katy Perry on imagination

Man lives by imagination.
Havelock Ellis on imagination

Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.
David Hume on imagination

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.
Georg C. Lichtenberg on imagination

I think what's really the most ideal thing is for the player themselves, within their own imagination, to carve out what they view as being the essence of the character.
Shigeru Miyamoto on imagination

My imagination completely controls me, and forever feeds the fire that burns with dark red light in my heart by bringing me the best dreams. I've always had a wild imagination, a big heart and a tortured soul so I feel that dark fantasy, love and horror are in my blood.
Kim Elizabeth on imagination

Imagination creates reality.
Richard Wagner on imagination

In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
Wallace Stevens on imagination

It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the character that I'm playing.
Jack Nicholson on imagination

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.
Jerry Gillies on imagination