Quotes About Imagination

I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it's not.

If you yourself paint or write poetry perhaps, you'll know how it feels to want to produce something ad be frustrated; your mind sulks like the air before a thunderstorm.

The world should have been in Technicolour, but seemed more like black and white.

I couldn't imagine such men at rest, their faces smooth and innocent despite the wickedness of their hearts.

I am the magical mouseI don't eat cheeseI eat sunsetsAnd the tops of trees.

Art is not to throw light but to be light...

Greatness and Truth can never be in danger from these murdering wretches. To perform one's duty, be it now, be it clean, and be it done with humility… A man is a sacred thing. ANY ACTION OR THOUGHT WHICH INJURES THE HUMAN IMAGINATION IS EVIL.

If taken at face value, the miraculous explanation would tell us that science is not worth the trouble, that it will never yield the answers we seek, and that nature will forever be beyond all human understanding. Sterile and nonproductive in its consequences, the claim of miracle would put a lid on curiosity, experimentation, and the human creative imagination.

Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defense: The creative act.

Show me a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a peeping Tom and I will show you the makings of a dramatist.

What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober.

The genius who doesn't imagine is merely a brilliant idiot.

A girl is different. They want things. They need things on a regular schedule. Why, a girl's got purposes you and me can't even imagine. They got ideas in their heads you and me can't even suppose.

Memory is a fickle thing, a flickering light in a darkroom of possibilities.

And when I am old, and my body has begun to fail me, my memories will be waiting for me. They will lift me and carry me over mountains and oceans. I will hold them and turn them and watch them catch the sunlight as they come alive once more in my imagination. I will be rich and I will be at peace.

When you allow your fear or your insecurity or your unrealistic belief in perfection too control you, you are betraying that possibility of life. You are saying that you do not have faith in the artistic child born of the union between your imagination and your talent. You are measuring your art by your own standards of excellence rather than trusting your art and letting it make its way into the hearts of others by its own devices.

Imagination it is which builds bridges, and cities, and empires. The beasts know it not ... while to one in a hundred thousand of earth's dominant race it is given as a gift from heaven that man may not perish from the earth.

But metaphor, however poetic, never slaked a dry throat.

You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, would I go on writing. My answer is most emphatically yes. I would go on writing for company. Because I'm creating an imaginary -- it's always imaginary -- world in which I would like to live.

dream long enough and dream hard enough you will come to know dreaming can make it so

Art does not have to be dull, to be effective; the artist does not have to be a bore, to be real.

What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out of the window.

What no wife of a writer understands is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.

What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.