Quotes About Imagination

Art happens when what is seen becomes mixed with the inside of the person who is seeing it. If

Like the French frontier police who thought that some of Picasso's Cubist drawings were plans of the country's defenses.

He said to me one day in the second week of July, "Asher Lev, there are two ways of painting the world. In the whole history of art, there are only these two ways. One is the way of Greece and Africa, which sees the world as a geometric design. The other is the way of Persia and India and China, which sees the world as a flower. Ingres, Cézanne, Picasso paint the world as geometry. Van Gogh, Renoir, Kandinsky, Chagall paint the world as a flower.

The paintings had a strange quality: they were figurative but there were no figures in them. They looked as if they might suddenly dissolve.

Mon maître le lecteur, que ceci soit pour vous un avertissement ! Ne dites jamais que vous savez ce que vaut l'aune de telle histoire. Souvent cette histoire si gaie, si folle, si amusante, aura germé toute gonflée de larmes, de faim, de misères, dans l'esprit de celui qui l'écrira plus tard.

Our minds must be as ready to move as capital is, to trace its paths and to imagine alternative destinations.

There is something universally chilling about a new plot. And I could see how my boy needed time and space for a story to bloom in his mind, because at any age what comes before sight is a conjuring. A trope, which is just a way to believe.

Imagination might not be limitless. It's still tethered to the universe of what we know, and as wild as our dreams might be, we can't help but read them with the same grounded circumspection that guided our forebears when they mapped out our walls.

Only a group lack of imagination could account for people not wondering what went on in the dark around them.

Maybe she was being so hoity-toity because she didn't have her own fairy godmother.

I could just envision Sam imagining that I wanted him to go out to the lake with me, only to be confronted by Jannalynn and whatever she thought of as a romantic dinner -- live rabbits they could chase together, maybe.

If it pleases you and you can write at all, it's gonna please somebody else.

Jack always had said you knew a person by the books they read . . . or didn't read.

If he had two thoughts at one time, they'd throw a surprise party

It was one of those nights that made me wonder how the humans around me could be so oblivious to the other world operating right beside ours. Only willful ignorance could ignore the charge of magic in the air. Only a group lack of imagination could account for people not wondering what went on in the dark around them.

Charlaine Harris

They say there's no harm in daydreaming, but there is.

I had never been able to fathom what people did with their free moments, if they didn't read.

Fiction just makes it all more interesting. Truth is so boring

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Since he'd had no clue about Chris Stybr (sometimes he had a genuine impression about the seeker, but this Chris could be a man or a woman or a hermaphrodite for all Manfred knew)

We know this story isn't true, but it is truth.

I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.

Il me semble que je serais toujours bien la ou je ne suis pas. It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.