Quotes About Imagination

Father Lopes confessed he had never imagined that so many madmen, and such mysterious cases of madness, could exist in the world.

Que mulher será essa, perguntou a si mesmo, tão bela que mete medo, tão fantasiosa que causa lástima? 

Tio Cosme respondeu com um Ora! que, traduzido em vulgar, queria dizer: São imaginações do José Dias; os pequenos divertem-se, eu divirto-me; onde está o gamão?

But unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, whose acts of creation are the obvious ones of working with paint of clay or words. Creativity is a way of living life, no matter our vocation or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts, or having some kind of important career.

In my dreams, I never have an age.

It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every morning before breakfast, for we are called on to believe what to many people is impossible. Instead of rejoicing in this glorious impossible which gives meaning and dignity to our lives, we try to domesticate God, to make his might actions comprehensible to our finite minds.

A book, too, can be a star, "explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly," a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.

Stories are like children. They grow in their own way.

We turn to stories and pictures and music because they show us who and what and why we are.

You mean you're comparing our lives to a sonnet? A strict form, but freedom within it? Yes. Mrs. Whatsit said. You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you.

When I have something to say that I think will be too difficult for adults, I write it in a book for children. Children are excited by new ideas; they have not yet closed the doors and windows of their imaginations. Provided the story is good... nothing is too difficult for children.

In reading we must become creators.

Art is communication.

It's not my brain that's writing the book, it's these hands of mine.

It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth.

Poets are born knowing the language of angels.

That's a sure way to tell about somebody--the way they play, or don't play, make-believe.

All forms of art are consciousness expanders, and I am convinced that they will take us further, and more consciously, than drugs.

Creativity is a way of living life, no matter what our vocation, or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts...

But if I knew everything, there would be no wonder, because what I believe in is far more than I know.

You cannot see the past that did not happen any more than you can foresee the future.

The artist, if he is not to forget how to listen, must retain the visionwhich includes angels and dragons and unicorns, and all the lovely creatures which our world would put in a bos marked, 'Children Only.

If a book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

Anything that stretches the mind is a help to the potential author.