Quotes About Imagination

Modernist design at large has housed the intellect and the eye, but it has left the body and the other senses, as well as our memories, imagination and dreams, homeless.

Mimari imgelerde eyleme yönelik, eylemsel kar??la?ma an?na yönelik bir ima ya da bir amaç ve "i?lev vaadi" vard?r.

Beden salt bir fiziksel varl?k de?ildir; bellekle ve dü?le, geçmi?le ve gelecekle zenginle?ir.

In the desert, I had discovered the West of my imagination, my childhood canyon infinitely magnified. I went there for inspiration and insight.

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid.

A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.

When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness.

The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it.

We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer.

Whatever one man is capable of conceiving, other men will be able to achieve.

Kathrin dachte, dass es manchmal schöner war, der Stimme eines fremden Schriftstellers zu lauschen, als einen real existierenden im Haus zu haben. Nach dem Abendessen würde Wolfi seinen Krieg gegen sich selbst endlich an den Schreibtisch verlegen, und Kathrin könte sich mit einem Buch in ihren Sessel setzen und die Arbeit eines Autors genießen, von dessen Krisen sie nichts wissen musste.

Und Erinnerungen sind einfach wie Fernsehen.

Was aber der Mensch nicht kritisieren, korrigieren und in der Phantasie vollenden darf, dem kann er sich auch nicht nähern, weder in Gedanken noch mit dem Gefühl.

In the same way that a word repeated over and over begins to sound bizarre, so an object scrutinized with such attention will start to shed its everyday invisibility. So pepper grinders become armless women who scream when their heads are twisted and rain bitterness, a cheese-grater becomes a steel wall of tears, or a light bulb the lost eye of a Cyclops. The

Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.

Serious art is born from serious play.

Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite -- getting something down.

Creativity occurs in the moment, and in the moment we are timeless.

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.

Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise...As creative channels, we need to trust the darkness.

Art is born in attention.

But I was a pure romantic, and only operating with half my burners turned on.