Quotes About Imagination

To be fake in this dreamy universe is to believe in actual authenticity and behave accordingly, and to be in tune with the real is to know it's all phony and to create, with a generous heart, your own sweet ruse.

Rilke had a line...something about fishes. Or was that by someone else? Too much had already been written, too many pages, too many words. Maybe writers would be better to just stop, himself included, so that people could catch up. Maybe one day they'd reach a limit. No more books would be able to fit into the universe's bookshelves, not another paragraph squeezed in, not even a punctuation mark. Writers would have to find something else to do. It might be the best thing.

I'll remember your apocalypse if you'll remember mine It will be a holiday of the senses

Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new can be a matter of chance, of idle tinkering, or even of the chronic dissatisfaction of the untalented.

Creativity is discontent translated into arts.

We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.

We can remember minutely and precisely only the things which never really happened to us.

If this isn't exactly what went down, it's certainly how it should have happened.

We see what we want to see. We idealize each other with our own fantasies.

he never stopped taking photographs, only now it isn't with a camera but mentally.

You have to dream dreams to live dreams.

Almost nothing beautiful or brilliant happens unless a person has thought about it a lot.

the battle for our culture must be waged at the level of the imagination.

What if all the myths and fairy tales were pointing to something that was not only true but also truer than anything we knew in this world, to a realm that was truer and more real?

Don Quixote was for Bonhoeffer an important picture of the human condition.

It's much easier for me to imagine a praying murderer, a praying prostitute, than a vain person praying. Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.

Milner simply cannot have really existed, except perhaps in a tale by Baron von Munchausen. And yet there he stood at the Scarborough races, looming gigantically over the wee mannikin Wilberforce.

It is much easier for me to imagine a praying murderer, a praying prostitute, than a vain person praying. Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.

War…next to love, has most captured the world's imagination" – Eric Partridge, famous lexicographer and author who served in the Australian Imperial Force during WWI

A book is a story for the mind. A song is a story for the soul.

You are not an artist,an artist creates. You do not write your own songs. End of debate.

This reductionist vision is reflected in the evolution of his work. Perhaps Mondrian also implicitly realized that by excluding certain angles and focusing only on others he might pique the beholder's curiosity and imagination about the omissions.

The big question of our time is not Can it be built? but Should it be built? This places us in an unusual historical moment: our future prosperity depends on the quality of our collective imaginations.

Zero invites imagination, but small numbers invite questions about whether large numbers will ever materialize.