Quotes About Imagination

At that moment a short, broad figure emerged from the house, looking absurdly like a giant panda dressed in a butler's black suit with a white shirt and black tie. Its round panda face had a spotlight for a nose, two eye lenses, large ears, and a speaker for a mouth.

It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither.

As we explore these possibilities we must remember that they are just that — not predictions or prophecies.

Ik ben een revist, veel en veel meer dan jij. Voor mij zijn de voorstelling en de idee vrijwel even belangrijk en reëel als de tastbare werkelijkheid.

Anything can be art. Anthing can be self-expression. Now you take the weapon and run with it.

Art is the highest form of hope.

Use simple words, words that _create pictures_ and _action_ and that _generate feeling._

of Shelley's masterpiece was not vague,

Possibly there are few imaginative writers who have not a leaning, secret or avowed, to the occult. The creative gift is in very close relationship with the Great Force behind the universe; for aught we know, may be an atom thereof. It is not strange, therefore, that the lesser and closer of the unseen forces should send their vibrations to it occasionally; or, at all events, that the imagination should incline its ear to the most mysterious and picturesque of all beliefs

Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding critics. As only those who dare to make mistakes succeed greatly, only those who shake free the wings of their imagination brush, once in a way, the secrets of the great pale world. If such writers go wrong, it is not for the mere brains to tell them so

How they love the old boxcar!

Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.

Reason needs the imagination and at the same time must transcend it because what really matters is the search for truth.

As Christians our task is to mirror the divine artist as faithfully as possible. Aquinas, like his fellow thinkers, equates imagination with fantasy. He affirms the mediating function of the imagination between mind and body and perceives it as `a treasure-store of forms received through the senses

Dire, schioccando le dita: Go, Stop, quando un ascensore sta per partire o fermarsi, e io sono solo della cabina; dirigere con entrambe le braccia un attacco d'orchestra invisibile che s'ascolta davanti alla radio... sono debolezze che ho dell'infanzia, m'è sempre piaciuto, per scherzo o rivalsa, fingere di condurre chi mi trascina.

Freedom is the dream you dream While putting thought in chains again --

But you were born to gentle dreams,

Diceva che i diletti più veri che abbia la nostra vita, sono quelli che nascono dalle immaginazioni false; e che i fanciulli trovano il tutto anche nel niente, gli uomini il niente nel tutto. ( Detti memorabili di Filippo Ottonieri )

Art is a kind of illness.

Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.

The most sublime labour of poetry is to give sense and passion to insensate things; and it is characteristic of children to take inanimate things in their hands and talk to them in play as if they were living persons... This philological-philosophical axiom proves to us that in the world's childhood men were by nature sublime poets...

rational metaphysics teaches that man becomes all things by understanding them ... imaginative metaphysics shows that man becomes all things by not understanding them ... for when he does not understand he makes the things out of himself and becomes them by transforming himself into them.