Quotes About Imagination

Books — the warm, leather-skinned weight of them in your hands, the way they smelled when you lifted them close to your face. The unfeasibly heart-jolting shock once, as a tome fell heavily open at some much-visited page, divided itself neatly in two blocky halves along the spine — and you thought, guiltily, that you'd broken it.

Humans, short- lived and locked out of the gray places for life, do not do well with uncertainty. If they cannot have what might, what could, what should, and perhaps most awful of all what should have been, then they will dream it up instead, imagine it into being in whatever twisted or beautiful form suits, and then drive their fellows to their knees in chains by the thousand and million to pretend in chorus that it is so.

When I looked at the curve of her hips and thighs on the window shelf, I could feel the way she had writhed back against me so clearly it was almost virtual.

If they cannot have what might, what could, what should, and perhaps most awful of all what should have been, then they will dream it up instead, imagine it into being in whatever twisted or beautiful form suits, and then drive their fellows to their knees in chains by the thousand and million to pretend in chorus that it is so.

Wait, I see something: It sounds like a lullaby is being sung to children in the other world. Answer: The sound of a swiftly moving current. Koyukon riddle

The most important thing now, as fast as conditions are changing, is that no Negro tolerate any ceiling on his ambitions or imagination. Good luck and don't have any doubts; you haven't time for such foolishness.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. PABLO PICASSO

Making our art, we make artful lives.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

Remember, there is a creative energy that wants to express itself through you";

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. C. G. JUNG

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in the dark

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. PABLO PICASSO

Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance. M. C. RICHARDS

In a sense, as we are creative beings, our lives become our work of art.

Artists and intellectuals are not he same animal. This causes a great deal of confusion. Our schools teach educate us intellectually but not artistically. We learn to deconstruct art, not construct it.

Without them, our dreams may remain terra incognita. I know mine did. Using them, the light of insight is coupled with the power for expansive

The brain enjoys writing. It enjoys the act of naming things, the processes of association and discernment. Picking words is like picking apples: this one looks delicious.

The primary imagination I hold to be the Living Power. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Mystery is at the heart of creativity.

Every child is born an artist. The trick is remaining one as an adult.

The only anxiety is my imagined absence. I am never absent. I am present for you always.

We forget that the imagination-at-play is at the heart of all good work.

The purpose of art is not a rarified, intellectual distillate— it is life, intensified, brilliant life. ALAIN ARIAS-MISSON