Quotes About Imagination

Artists walk alone.

Genius ... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.

Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea.

Some quick to arm,some for adventure,some from fear of weakness,some from fear of censure,some for love of slaughter, in imagination,learning later…some in fear, learning love of slaughter;Died some, pro patria,non "dulce" non "et decor"…walked eye-deep in hellbelieving in old men's lies, the unbelievingcame home, home to a lie.

where the dead walked and the living were made of cardboard.

Left him delighted with the imaginary Audition of the phantasmal sea-surge

Under white clouds, cielo di Pisa. Out of all this beauty something must come.

He had moved amid her phantasmagoria, Amid her galaxies

The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.

The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.

Los artistas tienen el cerebro inflamado de fantasías y por eso se les hace difícil adoptar el proceder del común. Pero si no lo tuvieran poseído por sus ficciones, no podrían luego construir esas complejas armaduras oníricas que exigen años de trabajo. El artista es su primera ficción. Así que ningún artista sabe quién es en realidad o qué desusado ciudadano ven en él sus vecinos.

He repeated to himself an old French proverb that he had made up that morning.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind.

We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it.

Life is worth living really but only if we believe it is, if we believe further that life is eternal not because the tissues last forever, but because the imagination never dies

We see not because everything is visible, but because something always defies the eye, persisting beyond the remit of mere representation. This something, which Pasolini endeavors to situate at the heart of filmmaking, is preceisely 'that which always escapes from the grasp of that form of vision that is satisfied with itself in imagining itself as consicousness' (Lacan, 1998).

Pupils had to create a rhyme for today's lesson. When it's his turn, Gilbert goes: "I was in the pond behind the hillocks and I had water up to my knees!" Teacher:"Interesting Gilbert, but that doesn't rhyme!" Gilbert:"I know it doesn't and I'm sorry Mrs Walter, but it's not my fault if there wasn't enough water!"

No matter how shut in we are by weather, by physical handicaps or by such mental conditions as we manufacture for ourselves, we are still free people as long as the mind functions, the imagination is stirred and the desire to reach out, to experience, feel and know, is with us; as long as the heart beats and with it the pulses of love, interest, and empathy for and with other people.

like something Disney might have envisioned if he'd taken a dose of LSD, backed up with a serving of psilocybin mushrooms, and a quart of tequila.

The bluff on which Natchez sat was huge, and the road zigged and zagged and curled and twisted and dropped— like something Dr. Seuss might have imagined in a book titled The Cat in the Hat Drinks Blood.

Or they aliens like that professor with the hair say." I wasn't sure who uni lisi was talking about,

That way. 'Second star to the right.' " " 'And straight on till morning,' " Eli finished the quote

both with a mixture of relief and apprehension. Jenny could well imagine