Quotes About Imagination

their kiss was like a paper airplane landing on the moon.

What was it like in there? Inside a daisy?" My answer: "Like a cathedral made of mathematics and honey.

In the end, perhaps we should simply imagine joke; a long joke that's being continually retold in an accent too thick and too strange to ever be completely understood. Life is that joke, my friends. The soul is the punch line.

She thought these thoughts to herself as in her mind's eye she ran naked through the woods, hugging trees.

Those who shun the whimsy in life will experience rigormortis before death.

The problem starts at the secondary level, not with the originator or developer of the idea but with the people who are attracted to it, who adopt it, who cling to it until their last nail breaks, and who invariably lack the overview, flexibility, imagination, and, most importantly, sense of humor, to maintain it in the spirit in which it was hatched. Ideas are made by masters, dogma by disciples, and the Buddha is always killed on the road.

That's the value of the artist... Even when they aren't aware, they're dreaming our dreams for us.

Claude could simply not imagine the couples he met at parties or passed on the street ever being locked in carnal embrace.

nothing the human race has ever invented is more cool than a book.

When it comes to coolness, nothing the human race has ever invented is more cool than a book.

I've begun to picture my abdominal cavity occupied instead by a single glowing globe

The function of the artist," the Navajo answered, "is to provide what life does not.

Can I drink more than one mai tai without taking on the aroma of an aroused butterly?

the Impressionists were able to lead the viewer into mixing color in his or her own eye.

Turn a mountain upside down, you have a woman. Turn a woman upside down, you have a valley. Turn a valley upside down, you get folk music.

Surely there would be humidity and plenty of it in Hell. Hard to imagine a condemned sinner saying cheerfully, Well, yes, it's two hundred and sixty degrees down here, but it's a *dry* heat.

Logic only gives a man what he needs...Magic gives him what he wants.

to behave as if the thermostats on their imaginations were set permanently on high.

dreams don't come true, dreams are true.

You can hook a rainbow to a goofy vision -Jellybean is doing that- but you can't hook a rainbow to a lie

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

The trip left the girl gaga, goofy, tainted, transformed, her nose a busted hymen through which sperm of a thousand colors swam a hootchy-kootchy stroke into her cerebral lagoon.

The rodent of ecstasy sings by my bedside.

Far out, Bobby wrote back. Next thing I know, you'll be knitting socks with "Whistler's Mother.