Quotes About Imagination

Sou um menino que vê o amor pelo buraco da fechadura. Nunca fui outra coisa. Nasci menino, hei de morrer menino. E o buraco da fechadura é, realmente, a minha ótica de ficcionista. Sou (e sempre fui) um anjo pornográfico

Into the world of romance, of make-belief and double brandies!

An awakened imagination works with a purpose. It creates and conserves the desirable, and transforms or destroys the undesirable.

Dare to believe in the reality of your assumption and watch the world play its part relative to to its fulfillment.

Imagination and faith are the secrets of creation.

Sleep conceals the creative act while the objective world reveals it. In sleep man impresses the subconscious with his conception of himself.

To desire a state is to have it.

more likely to have creative ideas (or less likely to suffer from group-think).

There can be no understanding without that sympathy which puts us, through the imagination, and (another's) situation.

By the age of four one has experienced nearly everything one needs to be a writer of fiction; love, pain, loss, boredom, rage, guilt and fear of death.

For Josef, the goal of art was to reveal new ways of seeing, "to open eyes.

The conceit of literary intellectuals is to imagine that other people don't have ideas so that they can assume a superior status by having their own...

Recall is an act of disciplined reimagination, and the remote past may be beyond anyone's ken.

A girl wearing a red dress in a forest will be some strange vision of unexpected eroticism, but a girl wearing a red dress on a catwalk will be highly predictable.

I was in love, and the feeling was even more wonderful than I ever imagined it could be.

It is the possibility that keeps me going, and though you may call me a dreamer or a fool or any other thing, I believe that anything is possible.

Too far-fetched to believe, too obvious to ignore.

What are we, after all, without our memories … without our dreams?

It was easy to idealize someone you barely knew.

Would you do something for me? Please? Would you just picture your life for me? Thirty years from now, forty years from now? What's it look like? If it's with that guy, go. Go! I lost you once, I think I could do it again, if I thought it's what you really wanted.

That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered.

They continued to watch each other from across the room, both frozen for a moment by the shadow of distant possibilities.

He was so different from her, yet in his presence she felt the possibility of another kind of life, a life she had never imagined could be hers. A life without the rigid limitations others had always set for her.

He smiled, thinking that for just an instant, it was easy to imagine they were still married, both of them on the same team, both of them still in love. Except, of course, that they weren't.