Quotes About Imagination

Many Nobel Prizes are awaiting good research to understand and explain the many mysteries of our bodies, such as the basic mechanism of memory or imagination.

Dickens' plots are his most discardable properties, and often have to be pushed aside to let the strange poetry of his imagination emerge.

Dickens' hypocrites are the prime beneficiaries of his inventive genius. The heroes and heroines have no imagination. We could scrap all the solemn parts of his novels without impairing his status as a writer. But we could not remove Mrs. Gamp or Pecksniff or Bounderby without maiming him irreparably.

No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.

There is a world of difference between inference and conjecture, and imagination must not roam at the cost of authenticity. Paul

Art is the triumph over chaos.

I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.

Literature has been our salvation, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.

I do not understand the capricious lewdness of a sleeping mind.

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

One night I dreamed I was locked in my Father's watch With Ptolemy and twenty-one ruby stars Mounted on spheres and the Primum Mobile Coiled and gleaming to the end of space And the notched spheres eating each other's rinds To the last tooth of time, and the case closed.

You don't have to suffer to be a poet

Who could believe an ant in theory? A giraffe in blueprint? Ten thousand doctors of what's possible Could reason half the jungle out of being.

I sleep with thee, and wake with thee, And yet thou are not there; I fill my arms with thoughts of thee, And press the common air.

I wish I was what I have been And what I was could be As when I roved in shadows green And loved my willow tree To gaze upon the starry sky And higher fancies build And make in solitary joy Loves temple in the field

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play

Nothing will stop you being creative more effectively as the fear of making a mistake.

Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.

This is the extraordinary thing about creativity: If just you keep your mind resting against the subject in a friendly but persistent way, sooner or later you will get a reward from your unconscious.

We don't know where we get our ideas from. What we do know is that we do not get them from our laptops.

simply telling the truth wasn't half enough. It still has to be brought to fictional life.

Each of them is a book through which other books dream. (referring to Nodier's SMARRA and TRILBY)

Poets can dodge. ("Evening Primrose")

it was imaginative people who tended to lie. Lying required making stuff up, and only imaginative people were good at that.