Quotes About Imagination

Immortality has turned us all into cartoons

Mortals fantasized that love was eternal and its loss unimaginable. Now we know that neither is true. Love remained mortal, while we became eternal

Fiction is all too often one rationalisation away from reality. (from the acknowledgements of Unwind)

Neal Shusterman

Why am I seeing a beach ball?

He could grow it into any style he chose. Be anyone he wanted to be. Wasn't that the greatest perk of a perfect world? That there were no limits to what a person could do or become? Anyone in the world could be anything they imagined. Too bad that imagination had atrophied.

Except, of course, when he made shit up.

Lief shook his head. "No grown-ups here. Only kids. Kids and monsters." "Monsters!" said Nick. "That's great. That's wonderful. I'm so glad I asked.

Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.

Oh, Creator! Can monsters exist in the sight of him who alone knows how they were invented, how they invented themselves, and how they might not have invented themselves?

No renuncies jamás a tus sueños, los cuerdos nada saben del sueño admirable de un loco!»

The child, in love with prints and maps, Holds the whole world in his vast appetite. How large the earth is under the lamplight! But in the eyes of memory, how the world is cramped!

Genius is childhood recovered at will.

The mainspring of genius is curiosity.

Imagination is the queen of truth, and possibility is one of the regions of truth. She is positively akin to infinity.

Celui qui regarde du dehors à travers une fenêtre ouverte, ne voit jamais autant de choses que celui qui regarde une fenêtre fermée.

Dis-moi, ton coeur parfois s'envole-t-il, Agathe!

For every letter of creditors, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you'll be saved.

The beginning of a novel: start a subject, no matter where, and to have the desire to finish, start with very beautiful phrases.

Conceive a canvas for a lyrical or fairytale buffoonery, for a pantomime, and translate it into a serious novel. Drown everything in an abnormal and dreamy atmosphere, - in the atmosphere of the great days. - It must be something soothing, - even serene in its passion. - Regions of pure Poetry.

N'es-tu pas l'oasis où je rêve, et la gourde Où je hume à long traits le vin du souvenir ?

Genius is merely childhood recollected at will.

Charles Baudelaire

Whose thoughts, like larks, rise on the freshening breeze, Who fans the morning with his tameless wings, Skims over life, and understands with ease The speech of flowers and other voiceless things.