Quotes About Imagination

Many of the younger generation know my name in a vague way and connect it with grotesque inventions, but don't believe that I ever existed as a person. They think I am a nonperson, just a name that signifies a tangled web of pipes or wires or strings that suggest machinery. My name to them is like a spiral staircase, veal cutlets, barber's itch—terms that give you an immediate picture of what they mean.

Professor Butts walks in his sleep, strolls through a cactus field in his bare feet, and screams out an idea for a self-operating napkin.

A alma é o lugar onde o amor guarda o que não aconteceu, sob a forma da imaginação, para que aconteça sempre.

A alma chora pelo que não existe.

A imaginação é a artista que transforma o sofrimento em beleza. E a beleza torna a dor suportável.

Lutam melhor os que têm sonhos belos. Somente aqueles que contemplam a beleza são capazes de endurecer "sem nunca perder a ternura".

Na minha infância nasce uma infância ardente como o álcool. Eu me assentava nos caminhos da noite. Escutava o discurso das estrelas e o da árvore. Agora a indiferença neva a noite na minha alma (Vincent Huidobro, citado por Bachelard)

Sonhar é uma forma de viver.

Literatura é sempre sobre o que não é. É um bruxedo para o retorno do que já foi.

Isso é sonho, que anuncia que é preciso esperar mesmo quando não há esperança. Ou, talvez, um pouco mais: que é preciso viver como se os sonhos impossíveis fossem acontecer...

As fantasias de infância são as memórias transfiguradas pela saudade.

memorizing history in school, you should picture yourself in the Battle of Hastings and pretend to lose your legs. You won't forget it then. Parietal

You could go through a whole lifetime in your head dreaming of another life, instead of living your own. Steve

Only in dreams does the happiness of the earth dwell.

Some popular quotations smell of airless closets. They exhale the stale imagination of the intellectual lower middle class. "Suspension of disbelief" has become one of them. Dressed up as a scintillating double negation, it serves the pedestrian notion of art as illusion.

Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.

A cloud can look like a camel, but a camel is unlikely to look like a cloud. This is so because the signifier must be able to stand for the whole category of the signified. The cloud looks like all camels, but no camel looks like all clouds.

Every great artist gives birth to a new universe, in which the familiar things look the way they have never before looked to anyone.

The mere exposure to masterworks does not suffice. Too many persons visit museums and collect picture books without ever gaining access to art. The inborn capacity to understand through the eyes has been put to sleep and must be reawakened. This is best accomplished by handling pencils, brushes, chisels and perhaps cameras.

Our highest endeavor must be to develop free human beings who are able of themselves to impart purpose and direction to their lives. The need for imagination, a sense of truth, and a feeling of responsibility—these three forces are the very nerve of education.

Where did you get Ultima's name?" many ask me. "That was her name when she came to me," I answer. From that first fortuitous meeting I have trained myself to act as a dream catcher. I don't seek characters, they seem to come to me asking me to tell their stories.

Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas on which women paint their dreams.

One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.

Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.