Quotes About Imagination

We have to muster the moral strength to reimagine America....The moral stamina to fight this fight requires that we cultivate our own elsewhere, because the one 'who finds no way to rest cannot long survive the battle....' We have to find and rest in a community of love....In our time, with so much hatred and venom in our politics and our culture, we must actively cultivate communities of love that allow us to imagine different ways of being together.

I'm always thinking music.

Always be yourself. Unless you can be a mermaid, then be a mermaid.

Do not only travel the world Travel the Universe as well.

Well. You can start painting now. Just get a piece of paper and a pencil. And drive the pencil like you were dancing

I wondered why I hadn't realized before that art was hard because you had to recreate not merely the scene but the way it soared into your soul and changed you.

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to sharpen.

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. (A Shadow Passes)

As I drove away, I felt deeply comforted knowing that magical things were still living in the world.

Columbus dreamed of an unknown shore at the rim of a far flung sky.

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses of eternity; and thrill; in waking; to find they have been upon the verge of the great secret.

A picture is something which requires as much knavery, trickery, and deceit as the perpetration of a crime. Paint falsely, and then add the accent of nature.

It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.

A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people

Muses work all day long and then at night get together and dance...

The creation of a painting takes as much trickery and premeditation as the commitment of a crime.