Quotes About Imagination

Sleeping, we image what awake we wish; Dogs dream of bones, and fishermen of fish.*

Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.

She was] a strange butterfly which had flown across his garden and which his eyes had continued to follow long after it had disappeared from sight.

In the nineteenth century the Germans painted their dream and the outcome was invariably vegetable. The French needed only to paint a vegetable and it was already a dream.

Vague expression permits the hearer to imagine whatever suits him and what he already thinks in any case.

I think part of my purpose in this life is to talk about magic, and to make it.

Beatrice closed her eyes and dreamed whatever flowers dream. Beatrice: That's very poetic, but they don't dream anything. Flowers have no cerebral cortex.

CATHERINE: I can't write from Diana's point of view. MARY: Of course you can. You're a writer; you can write anything. Just find your inner Diana. CATHERINE: I don't have an inner Diana. DIANA: Ha! You wish. Everyone has an inner Diana.

Fairy tales are another kind of Bible, for those who know how to read them.

She drifted, feather-like, in tenuous radiance… Her gown, it seemed a thing made out of mist, As though the dewy air Had gathered in a cloud about her form To clothe a shape so fair That nothing coarser could adorn it than A layer of atmosphere.

When you're a writer, the cure for whatever ails you is always writing.

And once again sentimentality seems to be dialectically related to violence and brutality, in imagination if not in deed.

In your rocking chair by your window shall you dream such happiness as you may never feel.

Art is the stored honey of the human soul.

A thought will color a world for us.

Children's reading and children's thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise. Or not rise. In these days of tension and confusion, writers are beginning to realize that books for children have a greater potential for good or evil than any other form of literature on earth.

With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour.

Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.

What we need are more people who specialize in the impossible.

All the resources we need are in the mind.

Books are the ammunition of life.

We] all need more than anything else to know human nature, to know the needs of the human soul; and they will find this nature and these needs set forth as nowhere else by the great imaginative writers, whether of prose or of poetry.

Trippa, troppa, tronjes, De varken's in de boonjes, De koejes in de klaver, De paardeen in de haver, De eenjes in de water-plass! So groot myn kleine (here insert the little boy's or little girl's name)

Now and then I am asked as to 'what books a statesman should read,' and my answer is, poetry and novels – including short stories under the head of novels.