Quotes About Imagination

To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.

I am like a moon that shines on an immense, unknown sea where ships never pass

Enseñe a sus hijos a hacer del escenario de su mente un teatro de alegría, y no un escenario de terror.

Somos uma partícula que surge na arena da existência e logo desaparece. Apesar da pequenez do ser humano, nosso pensamento caminha na esfera da imaginação mais rápido do que a luz, e é mais fértil do que o solo mais rico. Perambulamos apreensivos durante algumas dezenas de anos em nossa breve trajetória existencial usando o aparelho psíquico para tentar desvendar o desconhecido, em especial a vida. Perguntar é nosso destino.

La vida no es un ensayo, aunque tratemos muchas cosas; no es un cuento, auqnue inventemos muchas cosas; no es un poema, aunque soñemos muchas cosas. El ensayo del cuento del poema de la vida es un movimiento perpetuo; eso es, un movimiento perpetuo.

To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real.

Ah, this blasted habit of mine of inventing or deriving words!

The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning but imagination.

Lagrange , in one of the later years of his life, imagined that he had overcome the difficulty ( of the parallel axiom ). He went so far as to write a paper, which he took with him to the Institute, and began to read it. But in the first paragraph something struck him that he had not observed: he muttered: ' Il faut que j'y songe encore ', and put the paper in his pocket.' [ I must think about it again ].

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.

You could say she hid there, in the words, an escape within an escape...

All that I see came to me in colors.

Don't forget to embrace and get closer to your inner child.

We were feeling something they never had—a physical link into the world of the fictional—through the skeletal muscles of the arm to the joystick to the tiny person on the screen, a person in an imagined world. It was crude but real.

I'm drawing a diagram of what time looks like if you're looking straight into it - like looking down a tunnel and seeing a circle, if the tunnel were an angry ten-dimensional crab, which is what, in vastly oversimplified terms, we mean by the human word time .

Who wants to make the language of dreams?

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

The smaller the head, the bigger the dream.

The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendidly revitalized color. In short, the power of a certain kind of dream is such that death need not indicate finality at all but rather signify a metaphysical and metaphorical leap forward.

The real subject of this Book of the Wilderness, I suggest, is the longing of the people of Israel to learn directly from God, by learning something new about the Torah, about the world and themselves. What they are developing in their skeptical discourse is a language of imaginative truth, in which the fantasies of return to Egypt will be brought into connection with the miracles of Exodus. In them, traumatic suffering and traumatic revelation seek some subjective expression.

We invent for ourselves the major part of experience," Nietzsche says in Beyond Good and Evil.

Child's creativity – indeed, the human faculty of imagination – presupposes a capacity to be alone, which itself can arise only out of basic confidence in the care of a loved one.

As a reader, I could put on someone else's shoes and live through his adventures, borrow his individuality and make choices that I didn't have at home.