Quotes About Imagination

as we are creative beings, our lives become our work of art.

You're very Johnny Depp in Secret Window.

Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.

Everyone knows the moon's made of cheese.

There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and which, in its original state, permeates, penetrates, and fills the interspaces of the universe. A thought in this substance produces the thing that is imaged by the thought. A person can form things in his thought, and, by impressing his thought upon formless substance, can cause the thing he thinks about to be created.

Man is a thinking center, and can originate thought. All the forms that man fashions with his hands must first exist in his thought; he cannot shape a thing until he has thought that thing.

Todas las formas que el hombre crea con sus manos deben existir primero en su pensamiento; no puede darle forma a algo, sino después de haberlo pensado.

The Creative Power within us makes us into the image of that to which we give our attention.

Spend most of your leisure time in contemplating your vision

un pensamiento sostenido en ella produce la forma de lo que se pensó. El pensamiento en la sustancia pensante produce formas. Un

Hay una materia pensante de la cual todas las cosas están hechas y la cual, en su estado original, impregna, penetra y llena los inter espacios del universo. Un pensamiento en esta sustancia produce la cosa imaginada por el pensamiento. Una persona puede crear cosas en su pensamiento; y al comunicar su pensamiento a la sustancia sin forma, puede causar que aquello en que ha pensado sea creado.   Se

The courage of his imagination is the temporal and spiritual measurement of every artist.

The poet makes himself into a visionary by a long derangement of all the senses.

They know when they face the white paper for their real work that their unconscious mind is a lost continent which may give them flashes of wit and grossness and metaphorical beauty

Hope was always out ahead of fact, possibility obscured the outlines of reality.

His clock was set on pioneer time. He met trains that had not yet arrived, he waited on platforms that hadn't yet been built, beside tracks that might never be laid.

By his very profession, a serious fiction writer is a vendor of the sensuous particulars of life, a perceiver and handler of things. His most valuable tools are his sense and his memory; what happens in his mind is primarily pictures.

There was somewhere, if you knew where to find it, some place where money could be made like drawing water from a well, some Big Rock Candy Mountain where life was effortless and rich and unrestricted and full of adventure and action, where something could be had for nothing.

A poet is somebody who has written a poem.

We are strange creatures, and writers are stranger creatures than most.

The creative writer is compulsively concrete . . . . His fictional house should be haunted by ideas, not inhabited by them; they should flit past the windows after dark, not fill the rooms. The moment anyone tries to make poems or stories of ideas alone he is at the edge of absurdity; he can only harangue, never interest and persuade, because ideas in their conceptual state are simply not dramatic. They have to be put into the form of people and actions . . .

Nevertheless, no fictions.

Recollection, I have found, is usually about half invention, and

And though creative writing as an intellectual exercise may be pursued with profit by anyone, writing as a profession is not a job for amateurs, dilettantes, part-time thinkers, 25-watt feelers, the lazy, the insensitive, or the imitative. It is for the creative, and creativity implies both talent and hard work.