Quotes About Imagination

Just as we find it hard to see beyond the event horizon of a black hole, we also find it difficult to see beyond the event horizon of the historical Singularity. How can we, with our brains each limited to 10^16 to 10^19 cps, imagine what our future civilization in 2099 with its 10^60 cps will be capable of thinking and doing?

Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world. —ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

Näen unta, että pelaan pokeria. En ole koskaan pelannut pokeria, joten tietenkin häviän. Äitisi onnistuu sujauttamaan koripallon rulettipöytään ja saa kaikki numerot oikein yhtä aikaa.

me imagino por un momento siendo el dueño de una vida distinta. Imagino una casa cerca de una ciudad pero aun así lo bastante lejos y nadie en el jardín y nada que merezca la pena olvidas ni nada que merezca ser recrdado.

Sueño que estoy jugando al póker. Nunca he jugado al póker, así que por supuesto pierdo.

Es el recuerdo, no el olvido, el verdadero invento del demonio

También es cierto que se dejó encandilar, como tantos otros, por la engañosa armonía de la derrota, por el encanto y el olor de esas flores que se marchitan hermosas en la imaginación pero que se pudren siniestras en las manos

Ay la ficción que daño hace, y Sebastián debería haberlo sabido, viniendo de un país cuyo héroe más grande lleva un orinal en la cabeza. No leas tanto, le decían de niño, y no hizo caso, y así le ha ido. La ficción puede muy bien instalarse en el alma de un hombre hasta destruirla. Sebastián había visto y admirado a lo largo de su vida, hombres capaces de hacer cosas en el mundo real e incapacitados para la ficción.

Writing is art.... it reflects a creative process of experimentation and self-expression.

the imagination to see, the strength to achieve, and an absolutely incorruptible moral integrity'.

Everything in the world can be pictured, but a picture cannot represent its own pictorial form; this has to be shown rather than said.

It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things—a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring—with immense, even startling power.

Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is nothing but production.

I don't write fantasy; I write historical novels about an imaginary place.

You're smiling. But you must know yourself, since you are a literary person, that the work of fiction is always a form of recovery of the past, even if that past has to be falsified to seem real. The act of recalling the past in what we write doesn't mean knowing the way it really was, but rather becoming the master of memories as they burn in the perilous instant of creation.

And so, for me, the only fiction that still means something today is the kind of fiction that tries to explore the possibilities of fiction beyond its own limitations; the kind of fiction that challenges the tradition that governs it; the kind of fiction that constantly renews our faith in man's intelligence and imagination rather than man's distorted view of reality; the kind of fiction that reveals man's playful irrationality rather than his righteous rationality.

Ray did not but could have said, *quote* Me, I read books [.....] How's about you? *closequote*

We all live like cockroaches in the crevices of our imagination.

He looks to me like he's turning into a... into a..." "Into a what?" "Into a giant bat!

Who needs eyes when you can hallucinate?

The classical author who writes his tragedy observing a certain number of known rules is freer than the poet who writes down whatever comes into his head and is slave to other rules of which he knows nothing.

He sought an adventure but didn't find one. He was inexperienced and besides he didn't have too much imagination.

True stories deal with hunger, imaginary ones with love.

The really inspired person is never inspired: he's always inspired: he doesn't go looking for inspiration and he doesn't get up in arms about artistic technique.