Quotes About Imagination

Art is a staple, like bread or wine or a warm coat in winter. Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.

The artist has a special task and duty; the task of reminding men of their humanity and the promise of their creativity.

Each of us is an artist, capable of conceiving and creating a vision from the depths of our being.

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

Drawing is the discipline by which I constantly rediscover the world. I have learned that what I have not drawn, I have never really seen, and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing, I realize how extraordinary it is, sheer miracle.

Develop an infallible technique and then place yourself at the mercy of inspiration.

The object of art is to give life a shape.

Pioneers did not produce original works of art, because they were creating original human environments; they did not imagine Utopias because they were shaping them.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.

Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

A good book has no ending.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them: those we spent with a favourite book.

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.

Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! a message to us from... human souls we never saw... And yet these arouse us, terrify us, teach us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.

As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.

Boredom is simply the lack of imagination.

Boredom, like necessity, is very often the mother of invention.

A child's a plaything for an hour.

Children have no use for psychology. They detest sociology. They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff. When a book is boring, they yawn openly. They don't expect their writer to redeem humanity, but leave to adults such childish allusions.

Unlike grownups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.

We are all afraid - for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do. The personal commitment and the emotional commitment working together as one, has made the Ascent of Man.