Quotes About Imagination

If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us.

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother?

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother? Slogans which deafened us so that we could not hear the truth.

La letteratura è un traguardo che non risponde a generi né a temi. Avviene, e quando avviene è festa per chi legge.

Dormii indolenzito in una giostra di sogni.

This is what books should do: Carry a person and not be carried by him; take the day off his back, not add its own ounces of paper to his vertebrae.

Esistono libri che fanno provare un amore più intenso di quello conosciuto, un coraggio più scatenato di quello sperimentato. Dev'essere l'effetto che fa l'arte: supera l'esperienza personale, fa raggiungere al corpo, ai nervi, al sangue, traguardi sconosciuti.

L'utopia non è il traguardo ma il punto di partenza. Si immagina e si vuole realizzare un luogo che non c'è ancora.

Me ne stavo rinchiuso nell'infanzia per balia asciutta avevo la stanzetta dove dormivo sotto i castelli di libri di mio padre. Salivano da terra sul soffitto, erano torri, cavalli e fanti di una scacchiera messa in verticale. Di notte entravano nei sogni le polveri di carta. Nell'infanzia ai piedi dei libri, gli occhi non conoscevano le lacrime.

Les livres sont la plus grande contradiction des barreaux. Ils ouvrent le plafond de la cellule du prisonnier allongé sur son lit.

Comme tous les autres je désirais un chien, impossible à obtenir dans notre peu d'espace. Je me pris d'affection pour une balle jaune aux mille couleurs passées et sa bonne odeur de caoutchouc. Quand j'étais seul dans la pièce, la balle, de joie, me sautait dessus et jouait à ne pas se laisser prendre. Tout à coup ma mère criait d'arrêter et la balle craintive allait finir sous le lit.

Leerlos (libros) se parecía a adentrarse en el mar con la barca, la nariz era la proa, las líneas, olas.

Un escriptor instiga, sobretot, a la lectura, i de vegades també a l'escriptura. Un escritor instiga, sobretodo, a la lectura, y, de vez en cuando también a la escritura

Kegiatan fisik dalam menulis fiksi bertolak belakang dengan hasil yang didapat. Kegiatan tersebut adalah duduk tegang dan jenuh sepanjang siang atau malam di depan meja dan mesin ketik, pada saat aku ingin berdiri dan pergi ke suatu tempat untuk melihat sesuatu yang aku yakini lebih menarik dibanding apa yang sedang aku kerjakan.

Menulis fiksi adalah usaha untuk menciptakan tokoh-tokoh rekaan dan kejadian-kejadian penuh makna dalam batas-batas sempit dunia kecil yang aku kenal.

to effect large-scale changes in our lives and in the world, we need to hold large-scale visions in our minds and consciously pour our energy into them.

It was, then, in the imagination of Virgil, and of Virgil alone, that the concept of Arcady, as we know it, was born — that a bleak and chilly district of Greece came to be transfigured into an imaginary realm of perfect bliss. But no sooner had this new, Utopian Arcady come into being than a discrepancy was felt between the supernatural perfection of an imaginary environment and the natural limitations of human life as it is.

With only slight exaggeration one might say that he (Virgil) "discovered" the evening.

To create is to reflect the image of God. To create is an act of worship.

There is no proof of creativity without action.

The life of faith is less about gathering information than it is about expanding imagination. The movement Jesus started was a movement of dreamers and visionaries, not a movement of academics and theologians.

When in the puppet-show of dreams we hold in hand the strings of quite a number of actors, controlling their actions and their speech, we are not aware of this being so. Only one of them is myself, the dreamer. In him I act and speak immediately, while I may be awaiting eagerly and anxiously what another one will reply

The task is ... not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees.

Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or sculpt it. You literally mold the experience the way you want. It's therapy.