25 Profound Quotes About Imagination

It is a beautiful truth; Our reality is shaped by the unreal: our imagination. In advertising, our imagination can grow and wane between cups of coffee. So, we hope these quotes about imagination bring life and creativity in to your day.

Our Hand-Picked Quotes About Imagination

1. “I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.” -Robert Fulghum, Author

2. “We paint our world with our thoughts.” -Anonymous

3. “Everything you can imagine is real.” -Pablo Picasso, Painter

4. “Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.” -Jules de Gaultier, Philosopher

5. “Think Small.” -Julian Koenig, Copywriter

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6. “The possible’s slow fuse is lit by the imagination.” -Emily Dickinson, Poet

7. “Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, and dreams are forever.” -Walt Disney, Animator

8. “The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.” -Frank Barron, Professor of Psychology

9. “Worry is a misuse of the imagination.” -Dan Zadra, Author

10. “I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way–things I had no words for.” -Georgia O’Keefe, Painter

11. “To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas.” -Leo Burnett, Advertising Pioneer

12. “Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the things you can think up if only you try!” -Dr. Seuss, Children’s Author

13. “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” -Henry David Thoreau, Philosopher

14. “There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there you’ll be free, if you truly wish to be.” -Willy Wonka, Fictional Chocolatier

15. “To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.” -Anatole France, Poet

16. “The source of genius is imagination alone.” -Eugène Delacroix, Painter

17. “Fear stimulates my imagination.” -Don Draper, Mad Men

18. “The tragedy of life is not death, but what we let die inside of us while we live.” -Norman Cousins, Author

19. “The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.” -John F. Kennedy, Former President of The United States

20. “What is now proved was once imagined.” -William Blake, Poet & Printmaker

21. “Think Different.” -Apple

22. “Every human has four endowments – self-awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom…The power to choose, to respond, to change.” -Stephen Covey, Businessman & Author

23. “The man who has no imagination has no wings.” -Muhammad Ali, Athlete

24. “There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.” -G.K. Chesterton, Writer & Poet

25. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” -Eleanor Roosevelt, Politician

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