Quotes About Imagination

I would rather do nothing than do a rough sketch without having looked at anything. My memories will do better.

Art isn't something you marry. It's something you rape.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see

But here by the mill the castled clouds Mocked themselves in the dizzy water...

No fiction is worth reading except for entertainment. If it entertains and is clean, it is good literature, or its kind. If it forms the habit of reading, in people who might not read otherwise, it is the best literature.

Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.

edgar rice burroughs

They say that none of us exists, except in the imagination of his fellows, other than as an intangible, invisible mentality.

When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.

Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.

A lot of the songs start with an image. I was sitting there playing the guitar and I pictured this old, dirty green car, with the window rolled down, in the hot, hot, hot Texas heat, and this beautiful woman I knew when I was a kid sitting behind the wheel, looking out at me.

The early Greek mythologists transformed a world full of fear into a world full of beauty.

There needs to be a homemaker exercising some measure of skill, imagination, creativity, desire to fulfill needs and give pleasure to others in the family. How precious a thing is the human family. It it not worth some sacrifice in time, energy, safety, discomfort, work? Does anything come forth without work?

Writing for enjoyment of expression- like music and painting,(and photography)- does not NEED an audience of more than one.

Because man was created in the image of a creator. Man was created that he might create. It is not a waste of mans time to be creative. It is not a waste to pursue artistic or scientific pursuits in creativity, because this is what man was made to be able to do. He was made in he image of a creator, and given the capacity to create.

Everyone who has any talent at all in sketching, painting, sculpturing or carving, should have the opportunity to use that talent. The expression is important for the person, and can tremendously enrich the lives of other people. What can you do?

One active artist gives courage and incentive, and germinates ideas in others for producing more art.

Ideas carried out stimulate more ideas.

There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

Then Montesquiou was mentioned, and somebody described his first love-affair, a Baudelairean love-affair with a female ventriloquist who, while Montesquiou was straining to achieve his climax, would imitate the drunken voice of a pimp, threatening the aristocratic client.

History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.