Quotes About Imagination

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.

Le rêve de demain est une joie, mais la joie de demain en est une autre, et rien heureusement ne ressemble au rêve qu'on s'en était fait; car c'est différemment que vaut chaque chose.

El recuerdo es una invención desdichada.

It seems to me sometimes that I do not really exist, but that I merely imagine I exist.

In the domain of feeling, what is real is indistinguishable from what is imaginary.

Est-ce que vraiment, disait-elle, la terre est aussi belle que le racontent les oiseaux ?

And if it is sufficient to imagine one loves, in order to love, so it is sufficient to say to oneself that when one loves one imagines one loves, in order to love a little less and even in order to detach oneself a little from one's love, or at any rate to detach some of the crystals from one's love.

Istoria este ficÅ£iunea care s-a întâmplat. FicÅ£iunea este istoria care s-ar fi putut întâmpla

Não estabelecer a sequência de meu romance no prolongamento das linhas já traçadas; aí está a dificuldade. Um surgimento perpétuo; cada novo capítulo deve levantar um novo problema, ser uma abertura, uma direção, um impulso, um lançamento para frente — da mente do leitor. Mas este deve me abandonar, como a pedra lançada deixa a funda. Consinto até que, bumerangue, ele volte a bater em mim.

Les choses les plus belles sont celles que souffle la folie et qu'écrit la raison. Il faut demeurer entre les deux, tout près de la folie quand on rêve, tout près de la raison quand on écrit.

An art book is a museum without walls.

How lovely it is to dream while you are awake.

The man who cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot.

A game: say something. Close your eyes and say something. Anything, a number, a name. Like this (she closes her eyes): Two, two what? Two women. What do they look like? Wearing black. Where are they? In a park. . . . And then, what are they doing? Try it, it's so easy, why don't you want to play? You know, that's how I talk to myself when I'm alone, I tell myself all kinds of stories. And not only silly stories: actually, I live this way altogether.

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars; it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, images powerful enough to deny our own nothingness.

The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.

Men dream things — because men must have that which is beyond human reckoning to satisfy the need for comfort and a hedge against fear.

One day I saw that my friend had put a bowl, a cup, a teapot, and a square milk carton on the edge of a well, had filled them all with water, and was looking at them attentively. " 'What are you doing?' I asked him. And he answered me with a question in turn. " 'What shape is water?' " 'Water doesn't have any shape!' I said, laughing. 'It takes the shape you give it.

there is a great deal at stake here, many writers fight this battle and most lose it. what is at stake for the writer? freedom of invention, freedom to tell the truth, in all its particulars, freedom to imagine new structures.

It's as if every crack in the sidewalk is an open door to somewhere; you can go between the cracks to the hidden world but regular people never even see the cracks.

You tell me I'm a dreamer. Perhaps I am. But, in truth, I think it is you who seeks to escape, not I." For

An artist who has no faith is like a painter who was born blind.

A child doesn't have to be a prodigy. He has to be a child. The only thing that matters is that he shouldn't become 'stuck' in childishness.