Quotes About Imagination

The unrealistic nature of these tales (which narrowminded rationalists object to) is an important device, because it makes obvious that the fairy tales' concern is not useful information about the external world, but the inner process taking place in an individual.

The child, so much more insecure than an adult, needs assurance that his need to engage in fantasy, or his inability to stop doing so, is not a deficiency.

He disappears, and her endless wanderings in search of him take her to the moon, the sun, and the wind.

The initial motivation of the experiment which led to this discovery was a subconscious feeling for the inexhaustible wealth of nature, a wealth that goes far beyond the imagination of man.

My ideal goal is to "mature" into childhood. That would be genuine maturity.

Should I tell you that my room is walled up?...In what way might I leave it? Here is how: Goodwill knows no obstacle; nothing can stand before deep desire. I have only to imagine a door, a door old and good, like in the kitchen of my childhood, with an iron latch and bolt. There is no room so walled up that it will not open with such a trusty door, if you have but the strength to insinuate it.

There open up, deep inside a city, reflected streets, streets which are double, make-believe streets. One's imagination, bewitched and misled, creates illusory maps of the apparently familiar districts, maps in which the streets have their proper places and usual names but are provided with new and fictitious configurations by the inexhaustible inventiveness of the night.

The books we read in childhood don't exist anymore; they sailed off with the wind, leaving bare skeletons behind. Whoever still has in him the memory and marrow of childhood should rewrite these books as he experienced them.

One imagined these barrel organs, beautifully painted, carried on the backs of little grey old men, whose indistinct faces, corroded by life, seemed covered by cobwebs – faces with watery, immobile eyes slowly leaking away, emaciated faces as discoloured and innocent as the cracked and weathered bark of trees, and now like bark smelling only of rain and sky.

perché solo quando ti siedi, ti fermi e osservi può nascere la creatività»,

I remember being in Hollywood at the age of 16 and marveling at the stars. The idea of being part of it never entered my mind. It was too far-fetched.

Everyone knows that what they see in the movies is not real, but they're still able to let themselves go for two hours and "believe" what they see up on the screen.

The imagination is part of the arsenal that actors draw from.

Daryl shrugged. "If wishes were wardrobes, we'd be in Narnia.

I judge a novel by whether or not it turns my blood into starlight.

Okay, this might sound vague, but do you know this one girl with hair like this?

All my stupid little thoughts beget stupid little thoughts, rampantly speculating every possible outcome of every possible situation until they're all done to death and none of them could ever be true.

In your head, you're the star of an epic movie based on your amazing fucking life. 

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.

Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.

The common person fears to think beyond the common.

Do you want to know what you are? You are a creator. At every moment you are creating. The real question is, what are you creating?

The dreamer's untamed eye sees beyond the illusions to the heart of what is real.

Writers never retire. They just keep on writing, long after everyone else has stopped reading.