Quotes About Imagination

In my pictures, you never know, that's the mystery. It's just a suggestion and you leave it to the audience to put what they want on it. It's fashion in disguise.

I paint what cannot be photographed, something from the imagination... I photograph the things I don't want to paint, things that are already in existence.

I am mentally preparing myself for the five-year-old mind. I want to come down to their physical limitations and up to their sense of wonder and awe.

The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't want the issue of Hobbes's reality settled by a doll manufacturer.

Fall asleep reading a good book and you enter a world of dreams; fall asleep in a film and you miss the end.

An ability to believe in things that weren't true was a powerful tool.

Sometimes people say that we're living in the future, and time's up for science fiction, but I think that never will be, because science fiction really isn't about the future. It's about change and present-day concerns

Imagine God inside your computer, your phone, everyone else's computer. Imagine someone who almost is the Black Corporation, with all its power and riches and reach. And who, despite all this, seems pretty sane and beneficent by the standards of most gods. Oh, and who sometimes swears in Tibetan...

Chan has had the courage to subvert standard scholarly approaches to show that the very framework within which academics operate is itself an impediment to the leap of imagination required to meet the demands of our sublimely chaotic world.

It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.

I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she didn't like at school. I had a real crush on her, so almost every day I would write her a little short story where she would kill him in a different way.

I used to make up stuff in my bio all the time, that I used to be a professional ice-skater and stuff like that. I found it so inspirational. Why not make myself cooler than I am?

Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me,Starlight and dewdrop are waiting for thee.

Maynard Solomon. Late Beethoven: Music, Thought, Imagination. University of California Press: Berkeley, 2004

Stuart M. Sperry. Keats the Poet. Princeton University Press; Princeton, NJ, 1993

Gerald B. Kauvar. The Other Poetry of Keats. Associated University Press: Cranbury, New Jersey, 1969

Live only in your art," he wrote in his diary, "for you are so limited by your senses. This is nevertheless the only existence for you.

American philosopher and psychologist Alan Watts imagined this web as a multidimensional spiderweb. He said, "Imagine this web in the early morning, covered with dewdrops. And every dewdrop contains the reflection of all the other dewdrops. And, in each reflected dewdrop, the reflections of all the other dewdrops in that reflection. And so on ad infinitum.

she fell into a long sleep, and dreamed he dreams of the dream tree.

As you lay on a summer's day In a cool and shady place, Don't look up into the skies; Instead look down and squint your eyes. Squint your eyes so very tight, And if you wish with all your might, You'll find the land of More-Than-Small. In this land live buggs -- that's all!

As we look around us At our mortal side and sigh Remember a place called Wingsong Then, Lift your Wings and Fly

The skill, the art of literacy is a gift. To read is to watch in your mind as a single word explodes into a confetti of images. Truly, of all the gifts given to man, reading is most sacred, For from words come dreams and from dreams come great tomorrows.

Luftmensch—the impractical individual whose imagination has lifted him beyond the world.

I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you're never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It's in the spirit of it.