Vladimir Nabokov Quotes About Imagination

Quotes about: Imagination

• Some might think that the creativity, imagination, and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Inspirational, Creativity, Thinking

• A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Art, Writing, Should Have

• Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Art, Imagination, Shadow

• Imagination without knowledge leads no farther than the back yard of primitive art, the child's scrawl on the fence, and the crank's message in the market place. Art is never simple.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Art, Children, Simple

• Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Life, Order, Imagination

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1989). “Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited”

• I should allow only my heart to have imagination; and for the rest rely on memory, that long drawn sunset of one's personal truth.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Memories, Heart, Sunset

• When I try to analyze my own cravings, motives, actions and so forth, I surrender to a sort of retrospective imagination which feeds the analytic faculty with boundless alternatives and which causes each visualized route to fork and re-fork without end in the maddeningly complex prospect of my past.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Past, Imagination, Trying

  Vladimir Nabokov (2016). “Lolita”, p.5, Hamilton Books

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