It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
-Henry David Thoreau
Quotations
Imagination
I think I’m an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy; those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist.
-Susan Sarandon "Susan Sarandon"
Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
-Jules Verne
Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life.
-Simone Weil
Those who do not think outside the box are easily contained.
-Anonymous
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
-Pablo Picasso
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-Mark Twain
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
"Flight to Arras"
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
-Anaïs Nin
I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.
-Orhan Pamuk
