Quotes About Imagination

O homem médio "ideias" dentro de si, mas carece da função de idear.

O homem médio tem "ideias" dentro de si, mas carece da função de idear.

Ser artista es no tomar en serio al hombre tan serio que somos cuando no somos artistas.

es, de fantasía, y aún hay que añadir, de una fantasía mudadiza que hoy imagina un mundo físico distinto del de ayer y mañana imaginará otro distinto del de hoy.

Nou? zecimi din ce i se atribuie sexualit??ii constituie opera magnificei noastre puteri de a imagina,care nici nu mai este instinct,ci dimpotriv?:o crea?ie

We fall in love when our imagination projects nonexistent perfection upon another person. One day, the fantasy evaporates and with it, love dies.

The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.

The here and now is a prison house. We must strive, in the face of the here and now's totalising rendering of reality, to think and feel a then and there. Some will say that all we have are the pleasures of this moment, but we must never settle for that minimal transport; we must dream and enact new and better pleasures, other ways of being in the world, and ultimately new worlds.

Todo ensueño seguido por muchedumbres, sólo es pensado por pocos visionarios que sor sus amos.

La función capital del hombre mediocre es la paciencia imitativa; la del hombre superior es la imaginación creadora.

I am a Spaniard, that is to say, a man without imagination.

Night favors belief, and the imagination peoples the air with specters.

Day and night I always dream with open eyes.

Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas.

We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.

The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man

Usually I say I have no imagination.

Ultimately nature and events are largely what our imaginations make them out to be.

I was always, luckily, only a reader.

writers who cast about for something new will scarcely ever be great, for great things could not have escaped the attention of earlier observers.

Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.

Cómo va a entender que esas cosas, que se pueden hacer pensando en otras, no agotan como las que no pueden hacerse ni pensando constante, profunda, desgarradoramente en ellas mismas?

Si encontrara una primera frase, fuerte, precisa, impresionante, tal vez la segunda sería más fácil y la tercera vendría por sí misma.

And as much as history serves as a medium for discovering the past, it also is, we confess, a means to invent it.