Quotes About Imagination

Any writer, in whatever form, must first pass through the stage of being a reader. It is unimaginable that someone could become a writer without first being a reader. Only a daydreamer who had fallen into an unhealthy idealism could exoticize a writer in this way. Such misperception is similar to believing that thought is possible without language.

I might simply be imagining things, but I do believe that in this parodying of heresy there exists a daring kind of wisdom that might also parody the grounds of orthodoxy.

I personally feel that a box, far from being a dead end, is an entrance to another world. I don't know to where, but an entrance to somewhere, some other world.

Last night I got up to pin a star under my top bunk. It stands for Matthew, who's a planet all to himself. In order to get to know that planet you have to do away with rules and prejudices and language, and throw yourself at it without being frightened of traveling through space.

Some stories, some visions, demand celluloid film and what it can deliver.

So beautiful... I can see hell.

Asakawa himself didn't much care if the company made money or lost it. All that mattered to him was whether or not the work was engaging. No matter how easy a job was physically, if it didn't involve imagination, it usually ended up exhausting you.

?i d?c theo má»™t vùng nÆ°á»›c, b?n s? có c?m giác nh?ng bóng ma Ä'ang ???c sinh ra...

Tôi không thích máu vì nó gi?t ch?t trí t??ng t??ng.

It has been said that art is a tryst, for in the joy of it maker and beholder meet.

But somehow, once you start playing behind the steering wheel of God, you realize just how powerful it is to be the imagination driving the natural world (64).

Tinere?ea nu este o etap? a vie?ii, ci este o stare de spirit. Tinere?ea nu ?ine de obraji îmbujora?i, buze ro?ii ?i genunchi supli. Ea este o chestiune de voin??, un atribut al imagina?iei, o vigoare a emo?iilor.

Imagination," Zuse used to say, "is the key to all progress.

Voor een schrijver is het geheugen bijna alles. Het opgespaarde materiaal wordt er niet alleen maar opgeslagen. Het meest waardevolle wordt er als in een toverzeef achtergehouden. Stof en molm vallen erdoor en worden door de wind weggevoerd en slechts het goudzand blijft achter. En daarmee worden dan kunstwerken gemaakt.

Mijn kindertijd was bijna voorbij. Het is erg jammer dat we pas als we volwassen worden de bekoring van deze tijd beginnen te begrijpen. Als kind was alles zo anders. We bekeken de wereld met klare en zuivere ogen, alles leek zoveel stralender.

You know now that our work on a play begins with the use of _if_ as a lever to lift us out of everyday life on to the plane of imagination.

I've been thinking I'd like to be Daisy; I'd like to have someone like Gatsby stare at my house for whole years and never stop dreaming of me

A regénykönyvek már nem mulattatnak, mert magam szebbeket tudok elgondolni.

What does everything mean to you right now, this second, while you are looking out at an ocean of possibility?

Fear can wash away your dreams and fill up all the corners of your heart. You can drown in your fear. Do you hear this? Someday you will have to begin living, and how you do that will be a huge surprise to you because it will be like nothing you ever imagined. Nothing at all.

Since we were created in the image of God, we become like the God we imagine (image).

Utopia's value lies not in its relation to present practice but in its relation to a possible future. Its "practical" use is to overstep the immediate reality to depict a condition whose clear desirability draws us on, like a magnet.

You realized you were surrounded by love, that you were held by love, and that you'd had too small an imagination about that word, that thing. Romantic love, absolutely. Our notion of love— it just seems a very unevolved and very unenlightened notion. That it's this one person who you will meet. Eve Ensler

The interesting and challenging thing about this moment is that we know the old forms aren't working. But we can't yet see what the new forms will be. We are making them up in "real time"; we're even reimagining time.