Our imagination is ten times more potent than our willpower.
One cannot fix one’s eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.
Nothing too long imagined can be perfect in a worldly way.
Nothing is more frightful than imagination without taste.
No psychologist has yet thought that the imagination is a necessary ingredient of perception itself.[Dass die Einbildungskraft ein nothwendiges Ingrediens der Wahrnehmung selbst sei, daran hat wol noch kein Psychologe gedacht.]
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did he would cease to be an artist.
My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
My imagination is a monastery, and I am its monk.
Me, poor man, my library was dukedom large enough.
Life in this world is not a vale of tears, not a trial, but a thing that surpasses our imagination.[Жизнь здесь – не юдоль плача, не место испытания, а нечто такое, лучше чего мы ничего не можем себе представить.]
Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.[Laissons les jolies femmes aux hommes sans imagination.]
It is not reality that matters in a film but what the imagination can make of it.
