Quotes About Imagination

garden Materials needed Paper, felt-tip pens, pencils, ballpoint pens. Instructions The therapist leads the visualisation: Get into a comfortable position and close your eyes if you want to. Come with me. We are going into the garden. (PAUSE) It is morning in the middle of winter. (PAUSE) Put warm clothes on. (PAUSE) Coat. (PAUSE) Boots. (

The Muse visits during the process of creation, not before.

Because we are human, because we are bound by gravity and the limitations of our bodies, because we live in a world where the news is often bad and the prospects disturbing, there is a need for another world somewhere, a world where Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers live.

Judgment hinders imagination.

By definition, inventing new ideas requires you to think about things that are not already in your mind.

It is not enough to choose a revolutionary theme to create a revolutionary work of art.

If Newton had not, as Wordsworth put it, voyaged through strange seas of thought alone, someone else would have. If Marie Curie had not lived, we still would have discovered the radioactive elements polonium and radium. But if J. K. Rowling had not been born, we would never have known about Harry Potter. That is why Master Potter means so much to me. Science may be special but Harry, as a work of art, is more so. Harry Potter is unique.

To put oneself in the position of others is an act of compassionate imagination freed from self-concern.

When one had sufficient control over fantasy, one had no need of reality.

I always have a pad of paper and a pencil within reach, to catch on the wing this turn of phrase which strikes me as felicitous, that idea which I hope to be able to examine more closely in the light of day.

But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there.

Yes, basically, like you said, I'll work out a chord pattern and work out the lyrics over that.

There may be no more pleasing picture in the world than that of a child peering into a book - the past and the future entrancing each other.

Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves and where they dream.

The consolation of imaginary things is not imaginary consolation.

Music is a wonderful example of something that's in this world but not of this world. Great works of music speak to us from another realm even though they speak to us in ordinary physical sounds.

There is something about a literary work- its vision, its transparence, its metaphoric quality- that makes it very strong magic.

if you want to convince children of the power of books, don't tell them stories are good. Tell them a good story.

Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.

There didn't seem to her any harm in it, and the make-believe was so comforting.

Ultimately — or at the limit — in order to see a photograph well, it is best to look away or close your eyes. 'The necessary condition for an image is sight,'Janouch told Kafka; and Kafka smiled and replied: 'We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.

La poésie, pour moi, n'est pas évasion mais bien plutôt invasion. Invasion de l'univers extérieur par le monde du dedans. Pour agir, le poète doit être habité.

A fair portion of my anger had returned, but alongside it ran the memory of those few seconds on the yoga mat in the death pose. I felt as if I had been shown a kind of essential secret, something so subtle and quiet and small(and yet so important)that I could gone my entire adult life and never even imagined such a thing existed.

a good writer should draw the reader in by starting in the middle of the story with a hook, then go back and fill in what happened before the hook. Once you have the reader hooked, you can write whatever you want as you slowly reel them in.