Quotes about Imagination

Purpose is when you know and understand what you were born to accomplish. Vision is when you see it in your mind and begin to imagine it

The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.

Worship is the submission of all of our nature to God. It is the quickening of the conscience by his holiness; the nourishment of mind with his truth; the purifying of imagination by his beauty; the opening of the heart to his love; the surrender of will to his purpose--all this gathered up in adoration, the most selfless emotion of which our nature is capable.

To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the purpose of God.

We are too young to realise that certain things are impossible.

Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.

Where the statue stoodOf Newton with his prism and silent face,The marble index of a mind foreverVoyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.

Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great or original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.

My heart leaps up when I behold a rainbow in the sky.

O Reader! had you in your mind Such stores as silent thought can bring, O gentle Reader! you would find A tale in every thing. What more I have to say is short, And you must kindly take it: It is no tale; but, should you think, Perhaps a tale you'll make it.

Imagination, which in truth Is but another name for absolute power And clearest insight, amplitude of mind, And reason, in her most exalted mood.

They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude And then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils