Quotes About Imagination

I often lose patience, when, with a glowing imagination, I am giving expression to art and nature, he interferes with learned suggestions, and uses at random the technical phraseology of artists.

Everything is just how I imagined it, yet everything is new

Alas! it is so hard to find corporeal wings that match those of the human mind. Yet in all of us there is an innate urge to rise aloft and soar along when, lost in the blue space above us, the lark pours forth its vibrant song, when high above fir-covered crags the eagle floats on outspread wing, and when above the plains and lakes the crane seeks out its native place.

Ich könnte jetzt nicht zeichnen, nicht einen Strich, und bin nie ein größerer Maler gewesen als in diesen Augenblicken.

One cannot escape the world more certainly through art, and one cannot bind oneself to it more certainly than through art

La fantasia è un dono di Dio, dissi, perchè ho potuto credere, per un momento, che quelle parole fossero dirette a me.

Between the idea and the experience there seems to be a certain gulf fixed; we exert all our strength to cross it, in vain. In spite of this, we strive constantly to overcome this gap by means of reason, understanding, imagination, faith, feeling, madness, and, if nothing else will serve, with absurdity.

She could not help recalling the bustling which had attended Eduard's celebration of her own birthday, she could not help thinking of the newly erected pavilion under whose roof they had promised themselves so much pleasure. The fireworks exploded again before her eyes and in her ears; the lonelier she was, the more she lived in imagination; yet the more she lived in imagination, the more alone she felt. She leaned upon his arm no more, and had no hope of ever being able to lean on it again.

Qualquer coisa que você possa fazer ou sonhar, você pode começar. A ousadia tem genialidade, poder e magia em si.

Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.

Schöpft des Dichters reine Hand,. Wasser wird sich ballen. __Lied und Gebilde

Glücklich, den ein leerer Traum beschäftigt, Glücklich, dem die Ahnung eitel wär.

Era immersa nel suo libro e in se stessa, tanto amabile da vedersi che gli alberi, i cespugli tutt'attorno avrebbero dovuto essere animati e dotati di occhi per ammirarla e goderne.

Non c'è mezzo più sicuro per sfuggire al mondo che l'arte, e non ci si lega a esso con maggior sicurezza che tramite l'arte.

Neuere Poeten tun viel Wasser in die Tinte. (More recent poets put a lot of water in the ink.) -- Goethe: Aus Makariens Archiv. Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre. III 18

She found the page, cleared her throat and began to read, " 'There was nary a doubt that I had ever seen such big ones, round and ripe. My teeth ached to bite them' " God, what tripe!

Ships and sails proper for the heavenly air should be fashioned. Then there will also be people, who do not shrink from the dreary vastness of space.

Fly so high with my feet never leaving the ground.

That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.

You don't realize that some part of your brain is spinning out little scenarios of how much worse your future will be if you change. This keeps you from growing into a better and happier existence.

But my Country has in its Wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant Office that ever the invention of Man contrived or his Imagination conceived: and as I can do neither good nor Evil, I must be borne away by Others and meet the common Fate.

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office [the vice-presidency] that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived; and as I can do neither good nor evil, I must be borne away by others and meet the common fate.

Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.