Quotes About Imagination

Art is the daughter of freedom.

The key to education is the experience of beauty.

Die Blüten aller Dinge jeglicher Art flicht Poesie in einen leichten Kranz und so nennt und reimt auch Wilhelmine Gegenden, Zeiten, Begebenheiten, Personen, Spielwerke und Speisen, alles durcheinander in romantischer Verwirrung, so viel Worte so viel Bilder; und das ohne alle Nebenbestimmungen und künstlichen Übergänge, die am Ende doch nur dem Verstande frommen und jeden kühneren Schwung der Fantasie hemmen.

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

The painter is, as to the execution of his work, a mechanic; but as to his conception and spirit and design he is hardly below even the poet

When people want to be rid of Heaven it is logical to start by creating an atmosphere in which spiritual things appear out of place; in order to be able to declare successfully that God is unreal they have to construct around man a false reality, a reality that is inevitably inhuman because only the inhuman can exclude God. What is involved is a falsification of the imagination and so its destruction.

É mais fácil inventar o futuro do que prevê-lo.

This world is better than Utopia because - and follow this point carefully - you can never live in Utopia . Utopia is always somewhere else. That's the very definition of Utopia.

If we can all agree that none of us really knows what God actually is, maybe we can stop fighting about what we imagine God to be.

The trick here is to give up imagining how things are gonna be. Or, at the very least, to give up believing that the way you imagine things are going to be has anything to do with the way they really will be.

That's all science fiction was ever about. Hating the way things are, wanting to make things different.

Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off.

Science-fiction works hand-in-glove with the universe.

The Viking Lander on Mars is a toy grown to large size, a metaphor of a dream; that dream of extending our will, our hand, our seeing eye to another world. It is not a machine, it is us.

You grow ravenous. You run fevers. You know exhilarations. You can't sleep at night, because your beast-creature ideas want out and turn you in your bed. It is a grand way to live.

Books make us feel alive, and though we obviously won't live forever, they make us feel as if we might.

We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. The audience must believe in order to keep faith in the story.

As a painter paints pictures on a wall, the intellect goes on creating the world in the heart always.

I want you to believe...to believe in things that you cannot.

A writer is simply a photographer of thoughts.

Above our heads exists an infinity of unfathomable fantasiastics: and fields of future fireside fables trail close behind

A clever tattooist produces artistic work, creativity in living with knowledge and insight to his craft.

An artist is only as good as their morgue. When I say morgue, I'm talking about the artist's visual library of references.