Quotes About Imagination

Dream kitchens. I will have countless ones, in my heart or in reality. Or in my travels. Alone, with a crowd of people, with one other person—in all the many places I will live. I know that there will be so many more.

Non c'è nessuno che riesce a fuggire del tutto dall'incantesimo dell'infanzia.

Dù sao trong ?o v?ng c?a má»—i ng??i, ? má»™t nÆ¡i nào Ä'ó không th? vá»›i tá»›i, có má»™t hình dung lung linh mà ai cÅ©ng thá»±c sá»± thèm mu?n, lá»›n hÆ¡n c? ni?m hy v?ng, m?nh hÆ¡n c? ánh sáng, có tên là H?nh Phúc". (Amrita - Banana Yoshimoto)

Dù sao trong ?o v?ng c?a má»—i ng??i, ? má»™t nÆ¡i nào Ä'ó không th? vá»›i tá»›i, có má»™t hình dung lung linh mà ai cÅ©ng thá»±c sá»± thèm mu?n, lá»›n hÆ¡n c? ni?m hy v?ng, m?nh hÆ¡n c? ánh sáng, có tên là H?nh Phúc". (Há»' - Banana Yoshimoto)

The conversation we just had was like a glimpse of stars through a chink in cloudy sky.

That resplendent space created by a piece of fiction can really expand the width of time... Clearly there is a spot somewhere inside our heads that records the feelings we had when we read the book, and it stays with us forever

This town breathes in all the universes that people in this city have in their heads

It was all your imagination. And imagination is sometimes worse than reality.

There was all the time in the world. In the endless repetition of other nights, other mornings, this moment, too, might become a dream.

Dev'esserci un posto dove non c'è distinzione tra vero e falso, dove le persone come ce le immaginiamo e come sono realmente vivono fianco a fianco. E' quella l'unica verità. Una verità che non sarà mai possibile esprimere a parole. "Another World

I want to live in a world created by art, not just decorated with it

You don't need planning permission to build castles in the sky.

Pensa fuori dagli schemi, smonta gli schemi e falli a pezzi

Imagine a city where graffiti wasn't illegal, a city where everybody could draw whatever they liked. Where every street was awash with a million colours and little phrases. Where standing at a bus stop was never boring. A city that felt like a party where everyone was invited, not just the estate agents and barons of big business. Imagine a city like that and stop leaning against the wall - it's wet.

If you have a statue in the city centre you could go past it every day on your way to school and never even notice it, right. But as soon as someone puts a traffic cone on its head, you've made your own sculpture.

I heard heroes and saw them in my mind and imagined what evil was and cheered at its destruction. In the movies too, in film after film, evil could be destroyed.

Creation, whatever its form, is not an act of will, but an act of faith. — LLOYD ALEXANDER

At a desk, in front of a computer, my mind goes blank, but as soon as I take off (to the supermarket, to Australia), inspiration strikes. Journeys are the midwives of books. — ALAIN DE BOTTON

I walk around in my human fog, lost in my own head, while he comes up with twenty-two words for seagull.

And it seems to me when people quit dreaming, sleeping and awake, when they can't even imagine wonderful and terrible things happening, then they're not going to make things happen. They're not really people anymore. They're just sort of like pets.

I use to believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and Tom Cruise too.

Apparently a girl could get just as far with a blindfold and a dream.

According to a recent article in the New York Times, few parents expose their children to those works in the original these days, and some of their reasons make sense. Who wants children growing up with the idea that stepmothers are wicked, ugly people are evil, women can get by on their beauty, and princesses are all white? At the same time, I worry about children who grow up thinking that every story has a happy ending and no one gets permanently hurt along the way.

As painful as it is, pain cannot be communicated except by approximation, which means that any description of pain requires imagination.