Quotes About Imagination

His heart was in his garden; but his brainWandered at will among the fiery stars.

A book is a book only when it is read; otherwise it is a bundle of gathered sheets of soiled paper.

The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.

Comics are drawings, not photographs, and as such they present a subjective view of reality.

A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.

That's really what SF is all about, you know: the big reality that pervades the real world we live in: the reality of change. Science fiction is the very literature of change. In fact, it is the only such literature we have.

Someone once said that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism. We can now revise that and witness the attempt to imagine capitalism by way of imagining the end of the world.

It seems to be easier for us today to imagine the thoroughgoing deterioration of the earth and of nature than the breakdown of late capitalism; perhaps that is due to some weakness in our imagination.

Alone among the older kids, he had a romantic imagination, a feel for the things of the spirit, for the intangibles in human affairs. (It's what drew him to Churchill, a man whose appeal Joe Senior could never grasp.)

The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.

A white wall is the fool's paper.

What I wanted to express very clearly and intensely was that the reason these people had to invent or imagine heroes and gods is pure fear. Fear of life and fear of death.

I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.

Why do I need feet when I have wings to fly?

Du kan tenke dig seks bitte små mygg marsjerende over et forferdelig stort laken.

I found my home in books, Where dreams were realised...

When we dream alone it is only a dream, but when many dream together it is the beginning of a new reality.

Das Mögliche ist beinahe unendlich, das Wirkliche streng begrenzt, weil doch nur eine von allen Möglichkeiten zur Wirklichkeit werden kann. Das Wirkliche ist nur ein Sonderfall des Möglichen und deshalb auch anders denkbar.

A writer doesn't solve problems. He allows them to emerge.

Reading functions as hallucinating a meaning between letters and lines.

We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space -- how should explanation even be possible when we first make everything into an image, into our own image!

What we do in dreams we also do when we are awake: we invent and fabricate the person with whom we associate -- and immediately forget we have done so.

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.