Quotes About Imagination

Civilization is built by the artist, by the literary exponent, by the ability to generate beauty and music and new methods of expression.

Everybody talks about being a writer, angel. If every novel conceived on a bar stool made it into print, there would not be one tree left standing on God's green Earth.

What interests me, personally, is work which in some way, speaks the truth to power…I don't think we speak the truth to power for power's ear, but for the ear and the imagination of future generations, who would seek to live in a world free from the malign and self-serving influence of those who wield it.

We all see what we want to see.

As difficult it is tae conceive ay it at the moment, ah may yet find other uses for the organ, besides pishing.

You can't write a song out of thin air you have to feel and know what you are writing about.

An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours.

Drawing is the poet's written line, set down to see if there be a story worth telling, a truth worth revealing.

No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.

An artist does not have to think about what he is doing.

The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself.

All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature.

I was thinking that Rembrandt would have like to paint you.

?tiin?a este arta de a crea iluzii acceptabile.

Art has a magic quality: the more minds that digest it, the longer it lives.

God is imagined as a rich, old gentleman who is very happy that things are going so smooth here on Earth that he had created.

Scriitorul È™i pictorul folosesc mijloace diferite, proprii artei fiec?ruia, dar exprim? acelaÈ™i gând.

But life is glorious when it is happy; days are carefree when they are happy; the interplay of thought and imagination is far superior to that of muscle and sinew. Let me tell you, if you don't know it from your own experience, that reading a good book, losing yourself in the interest of words and thoughts, is for some people (me, for instance) an incredible intensity of happiness.

In the presence of total Darkness, the mind finds it absolutely necessary to create light.

A great many things are possible." And to himself he added: But not practical.

It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to fruition.

I don't know. How did Beethoven hear the Ninth Symphony in his head before he wrote it down? The brain's a pretty good computer, too, isn't it?

Consider the question suitably modified.

They (Medievalists) are soft, dreamy people who find life too hard for them here and get lost in an ideal world of the past that never really existed.