Quotes About Imagination

Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?

Haven't you sometimes seen a cloud that looked like a centaur?Or a leopard perhaps? Or a wolf? Or a bull?

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

The soul can not think without a picture.

For the purposes of poetry a convincing impossibility is preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

The most beautiful colors, laid on confusedly, will not give as much pleasure as the chalk outline of a portrait.

Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.

Every great genius has an admixture of madness.

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

The soul never thinks without a picture.

Hope is a waking dream.

No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.

For the last twenty years I feel as if I have been waiting for my life to happen between the pages of a book, the book I am reading while I wait to arrive at the destination I am destined for.

One man's imagined community is another man's political prison.

Song-writing's just kinda like catching fish--you sit there and pull them out as they go by--though I think Bob Dylan's up stream from me somewhere.

It was like a murder trial in which the district attorney, asked who has been killed, says he doesn't know; and asked about the corpse, says there is no corpse. Imagine killing a figment of someone's imagination.

Children have imagination enough to grasp any idea which you present to them with honesty and without patronage.

When I travel, I draw and paint sketches which is great fun. And as long as you are fully aware that it has nothing to do with actual art, I think that's all right.

If it can happen in your mind, it can happen in your camera

Nur die phantasielosen flüchten sich in die Realität.

Ein Rezensent kommt mir manchmal vor wie der Mann, der eine Wolke beobachtet und ihr übelnimmt, daß sie nicht die Gestalt des Kamels angenommen hat, das er jeden Tag im Spiegel sieht.

Die Welt der Kunst & Fantasie ist die wahre, the rest is a nightmare.

Die Welt der Kunst und Fantasie ist die einzig wahre. The rest is a nightmare!