Quotes About Imagination

I've had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I've often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.

One often makes music to supplement one's world.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet.

You can't really imagine music without technology.

Cooking is a way of listening to the radio.

My interest in making music has been to create something that does not exist that I would like to listen to. I wanted to hear music that had not yet happened, by putting together things that suggested a new thing which did not yet exist.

Stop thinking about art works as objects and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences. What makes a work of art good for you is not something that s already inside it but something that happens inside you.

I want to make things that put me in the position of innocence, that recreate the feeling of innocence in you.

And then he would tell me a story about a city that had come from another world, a city that was, in ways he either could not explain or which I could not understand, sentient. The beings in this city had once been like us.

They could read it on each other, their faces wrinkled pages. Words hiding in the folds of their clothes. She was made of letters then, as all of us are now.

everything in life came down to memories. The good. The bad. The real. The imagined. Put them all together, and that was the person you were.

Children had the gift, the second sight, the sixth sense. Sometimes she wondered if most writers were really just children who'd never grown up.

she was five years old and got her first library card, which to a bookish little girl was like a religious experience.

It is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.

I paint the spirit and soul of what I see.

I feel that what you should illustrate is the space between the words. It's the betweenness, the otherness, that gives depth and dimension.

Once upon a time, I thought faeries lived only in books, old folktales, and the past. That was before they burst upon my life as vibrant, luminous beings, permeating my art and my everyday existence, causing glorious havoc.

could only be permanently overcome by a being of both deity and humanity, a kind of "god-man" that could become an eternal sacrifice. But he thought his imagination got away from him, for such a thing seemed impossible indeed. Eleazer then took a censer full of coals from the altar and brought it into the Tent of Meeting.

Biblical imagination does not engage in syncretism (blending opposing views), but in subversion (infiltrating and overthrowing an opposing view). The commonalities show

The fact that God uses anthropomorphisms—human traits attributed to a nonhuman subject—to talk about himself is a powerful indicator of the value of imagination and human imagery in communicating and understanding truth.

The first step in innovation is to know that a thing can be created. After that, the rest is a matter of detail.

Some dreams never leave you, because they're more than just dreams. They're truth, distilled to purest potency.