Stella Benson Quotes

The imagination is not the consolation people pretend. It can even be regarded as the admission of some sort of failure.

Mere imagination would indeed be mere trifling; only no imagination is mere .

Imagination is a powerful agent for creating, as it were, a second nature out of the material supplied to it by actual nature.

Imagination, which is the Eldorado of the poet and of the novel-writer, often proves the most pernicious gift to the individuals who compose the talkers instead of the writers in society.

I believe that the imagination is the passport we create to take us into the real world. I believe the imagination is another phrase for what is most uniquely us.

The imagination is the power that enables us to perceive the normal in the abnormal, the opposite of chaos in chaos.

The imagination is too often regarded merely as an indefinite, untraceable, indescribable something that does nothing but create fiction.

What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what's real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime.

Imagination is usually regarded as a synonym for the unreal. Yet is true imagination healthful and real, no more likely to mislead than the coarse senses. Indeed, the power of imagination makes us infinite.

I believe that fantasy in the meaning of imagination is very important. We shouldn't stick too close to everyday reality but give room to the reality of the heart, of the mind, and of the imagination.

Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.

As soon as you start doing that - changing things - it seems self-evident to me that you've entered the world of make-believe. If you pretend that it's true, and use your own name, you are misleading people. Fiction is looser and wilder and sometimes in the end more self-revealing, anyway.

Telling people how to be creative is easy - being creative is difficult.

Imagination is the will of things. . . .

Well, no doubt it's a blessed thing to have an imagination that can always make you satisfied, no matter how you are fixed.

Imagination is the power of the mind over the possibilities of things.

Art as a fantasy has been one of my earliest experiences. I suppose a lot of my childhood was a fantasy that involved getting away from things I didn't like. Fortunately it had some relationship to reality so that later I was able to, to some extent, act as I imagined I might.

Creativity involves putting your imagination to work. In a sense, creativity is applied imagination.

Imagination is the supreme endowment of the poet and romanticist. It is a kind of second sight, which conveys the owner of it to places he has never seen, and surrounds him with strange circumstances of which he is merely the spiritual eyewitness.

The first of our senses which we should take care never to let rust through disuse is that sixth sense, the imagination. I mean the wide-open eye which leads us to see truth more vividly, to apprehend more broadly, to concern ourselves more deeply, to be, all our life long, sensitive and awake to the powers and responsibilities given to us as human beings.

The gift of imagination is by no means an exclusive property of the artist; it is a gift we all share; to some degree or other all of us, all of you, are endowed with the powers of fantasy.

Mr. Freeman sighs. "No imagination. What are you thirteen? Fourteen? You've already let them beat your creativity out of you!

I don't understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy.

Imagination gives the man the ability to poject himself through time and space and rise above all limitations.

We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing.