Quotes About Imagination

If one idea in particular seems attractive, and you feel you could do something with it, then you toss it around, play tricks with it, work it up, tone it down, and gradually get it into shape. Then, of course, you have to start writing it. That's not nearly such fun–it becomes hard work. Alternatively, you can tuck it carefully away, in storage, for perhaps using in a year or two years' time.

Date troppo corda alla fantasia. La fantasia è un'ottima serva, ma una pessima padrona. La spiegazione più semplice quasi sempre si rivela esatta.

It's—it's so lovely to think of things—and then for them really to happen!" cried Tuppence enthusiastically.

I couldn't help laughing to myself at little M. Poirot in the role of a panther.

The next morning we reach the Cilician Gates, and look out over one of the most beautiful views I know. It is like standing on the rim of the world and looking down on the promised land, and one feels much as Moses must have felt. For here, too, there is no entering in. ... The soft, hazy dark blue loveliness is a land one will never reach; the actual towns and villages when one gets there will be only the ordinary everyday world—not this enchanted beauty that beckons you down.

Beauty is in the mind, not the eye.

What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.

Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.

Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.

Le passé en lui-même est un très mauvais matériau pour la littérature. La littérature est un présent brûlant, non au sens journalistique, mais comme une aspiration à transcender le temps en une présence éternelle

Painting is a kind of visual poetry as poetry is a kind of verbal painting.

I suppose it has been said that art sometimes benefits from a touch of madness

Could she ever know him? Could he ever know her? Or would they always hold fast to what they imagined of each other so that life together would for each be more lonely than life alone?

A story can start from the oddest things: a magic lamp, a conversation overheard, a shadow moving on a wall.

I'm taken over by this trunk. I'm practically living inside it. When I read the journals I feel as if I'm there, a hundred years ago. I'm putting together the whole picture and I know everything that happened and wasn't written down - Amal, p. 133

Hell is a place forged in the mind and is fueled by fear.

People aren't predestined with a purpose. Like an elaborate lie, we make it up as we go along

You can kill the poet but never his rhyme

Unless you become a big picture thinker, you will always stay where you are.

When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.

The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for a totalitarian society to create anything with passion and imagination.

Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.

Unless you find yourself in a book, you have a hard time finding anybody else.

How brave a ladybug must be! Each drop of rain is big as she. Can you imagine what you'd do, If raindrops fell as big as you?